No it isn't a FileMaker problem at all! It's a pure PowerMail-bug! Doing the same with Apple mail.app it works fine! Diactrictic signs are transfered as they are, no need to encode them.
>This is a problem with FileMaker. I remember that at Apple we had to >write a bunch of custom email headers for the email in order to have >FileMaker do what we needed with non US-ASCII characters. I'll dig >through my old scripts and see if I can dig up anything, but I only have >access to the scripts I wrote and compiled as AppleScript files. Things >which I wrote and were included as part of FileMaker's custom scripts I >no longer have access to and I think that's where we ended up burying >that piece of code. > >Wayne > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rene Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 20, 2005 10:20 AM >To: PowerMail discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: mailto "body" text encoding? > >I "abuse" mailto for transfering mails from FileMaker to PowerMail and to >send them therefrom. > >Example of the FileMaker(FM)-script: >---------- >"mailto:"&FM_FIELD_ADDRESS&"?subject= >"&""&FM_FIELD_SUBJECT&""&"&body="&""FM_FIELD_MAILTEXT&"" >---------- >Works fine. > >Unfortunately PowerMail doesn't support "&from=" in the mailto string >(unlike other programs so as Eudora, see <http://www.tandb.com.au/email/ >clients/>). >Anyway. > >--> The much bigger problem is: the diacritic signs (like the german >umlauts) come in a very strange form into the PowerMail mailtext. > >Converting such signs into ASCI or Unicode code (with preceding %-sign) >couldn't help. > >Is there a way to encode such diacritic signs in the body of mailto in a >form which PowerMail accepts? > > > >
