- From: Barry Caplan <bcaplan@i18n.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:01:37 -0800
- To: "Paul Deuter" <Paul.Deuter@plumtree.com>, <www-international@w3.org>
At 11:20 PM 11/24/2002 -0800, Paul Deuter wrote: >Does anyone know if it is possible to use UTF-8 in a mailto: URL specification? > >When I use this with IE and MS Outlook, it seems that only plain text encoded in >Windows-1252 works. I have tried encoding the UTF-8 as %HH %HH but those >octets are still treated as Windows-1252. > >Is there a way to encode such an URL in Unicode? The only valid characters in an email address to the left of the @ sign are a subset of ascii. I forget the RFC number OTTOMH, but I could look it up for you if you really need it. Anything else goes through by the grace of god, but you shouldn't expect it to. Barry Caplan www.i18n.com
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