Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-22 Thread Wayne Brissette
-Original Message- From: Rene Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] The (sometimes strange) behaviour of different mail clients (incl. PM) can be compared with this list: http://www.tandb.com.au/email/clients/ Very interesting too. The only problem with this particular site is that the

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-22 Thread Christian Roth
Rene Merz wrote: The (sometimes strange) behaviour of different mail clients (incl. PM) can be compared with this list: http://www.tandb.com.au/email/clients/ Very interesting too. Hmmm, above all, it seems to be one thing: completely outdated (1999-11-26). PowerMail 2.2? I'm using 5.2.1 at the

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-22 Thread Rene Merz
Wayne Brissette wrote: This is getting more and more interesting... Here are the results of my quick testing: [snip] The (sometimes strange) behaviour of different mail clients (incl. PM) can be compared with this list: http://www.tandb.com.au/email/clients/ Very interesting too.

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Wayne Brissette
-Original Message- From: Christian Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] An 'ü' would therefore be encoded like this: ü = Unicode: 0xFC = UTF-8: 0xC3 0xBC = URL: %C3%BC (At least this is what I am doing with URLs with hi-ASCII characters in my own product.) This is getting more and

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Rene Merz
Am 21.10.2005 hat PowerMail Engineering geschrieben: The normal case should be, that the body text is transfered *how_it_is*! And just this is not the case with PM. I have not thoroughly checked the RFCs recently about this point, but I think nothing is specified for encoding non US-ASCII

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread PowerMail Engineering
Rene Merz wrote: The normal case should be, that the body text is transfered *how_it_is*! And just this is not the case with PM. I have not thoroughly checked the RFCs recently about this point, but I think nothing is specified for encoding non US-ASCII characters in a mailto URL; and non

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Wayne Brissette
And I know, how I can handle this problem: Inside FileMaker I have to resolve all the umlauts into two letters. It isn't smart, but it helps. But this is what the standard tells you to do with the mail to as well. Space should be encoded to %20, so this means that umlauts would be %dc or %fc,

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Rene Merz
:41 PM To: PowerMail discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mailto body text encoding? 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

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Wayne Brissette
. Wayne -Original Message- From: Rene Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 20, 2005 12:41 PM To: PowerMail discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mailto body text encoding? 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

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Rene Merz
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

Re: mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Wayne Brissette
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_SUBJECTbody

mailto body text encoding?

2005-10-21 Thread Rene Merz
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_SUBJECTbody=FM_FIELD_MAILTEXT -- Works fine. Unfortunately PowerMail doesn't support from= in the mailto