RE: Using UTF-8 with the mailto: method of sending mail

> Does anyone know if it is possible to use UTF-8 in a mailto: 
> URL specification?

I don't know the mailto: spec but I tend to think that the subject value
must be MIME header-encoded, rather than URL-encoded.
See RFC 2047
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt?number=2047
for the MIME header encoding.
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T. "Kuro" Kurosaka, Internationalization Architect
IONA Technologies, Santa Clara, CA USA

Received on Monday, 25 November 2002 13:36:05 UTC