UTF-8 Email with links

[kamlai@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I have an email in utf-8 encoding. In the content of the email, I need
to send a link in which the filename is in utf-8 string...just like
this..

$content = "<a href=\"http://xxxxxx/".$filename."\" ">Link to file</a>";

however, the link can not be correctly passsed and it automatically
encodes it into %xx format. How to solve the problem?

I've tried urlencode($file name) and urldecode($file name) but cannot fix
the problem... Need Help~Thx

[John Dunlop]

Re: UTF-8 Email with links

kamlai wrote:
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> I have an email in utf-8 encoding. In the content of the email, I need
> to send a link in which the filename is in utf-8 string...just like
> this..
>
> $content = "<a href=\"http://xxxxxx/".$filename."\" ">Link to file</a>";
>
> however, the link can not be correctly passsed and it automatically
> encodes it into %xx format. How to solve the problem?[/color]

Maybe they do get across as-is, just like the same characters outwith
URLs would, but your MUA percent-encodes raw non-US-ASCIIs in anything it
considers a URL?
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> I've tried urlencode($file name) and urldecode($file name) but cannot fix
> the problem...[/color]

Have you thought of percent-encoding them yourself *before* sending the
e-mail? or, sorry, is that what you're saying you've tried?

--
Jock

[Tim Roberts]

Re: UTF-8 Email with links

kamlai@gmail.co m wrote:[color=blue]
>
>I have an email in utf-8 encoding. In the content of the email, I need
>to send a link in which the filename is in utf-8 string...just like
>this..
>
>$content = "<a href=\"http://xxxxxx/".$filename."\" ">Link to file</a>";
>
>however, the link can not be correctly passsed and it automatically
>encodes it into %xx format. How to solve the problem?[/color]

You allow it to encode into the %xx format. URLs are not supposed to
contain any characters outside of 20 - 7F.
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>I've tried urlencode($file name) and urldecode($file name) but cannot fix
>the problem...[/color]

What operating system are you using? Are you sure the operating system
allows utf-8 filenames?
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.