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  • Vittorio
    #1

    email link and foreign accent

    Hi,

    I have one problem ( I am a python beginner) in a cgi:

    print"""<a href="mailto:%s ">""" %(campovalore.e ncode('iso-8859-1'))
    print campovalore.enc ode('iso-8859-1')
    print """</a>"""


    campovalore is an email address with special (italian) characters.

    From IE6 everything is fine and the link launches my predefined (in
    Windows) email client with the correct string in the mailto field.

    But from Firefox and the same email client I have an incorrect mailto field
    every time there is a special character in the string.

    Any suggestion is welcome,

    vittorio
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    • Peter Hansen
      #2
      Re: email link and foreign accent

      Vittorio wrote:[color=blue]
      > print"""<a href="mailto:%s ">""" %(campovalore.e ncode('iso-8859-1'))
      > print campovalore.enc ode('iso-8859-1')
      > print """</a>"""
      >
      > campovalore is an email address with special (italian) characters.
      > [snip]
      > Any suggestion is welcome,[/color]

      It might help if you showed us the output of "repr(x)" where x is the
      output of the campovalore.enc ode('iso-8859-1') part above.

      -Peter

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        • Vittorio
          #3
          Re: email link and foreign accent

          Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp. com> wrote in news:6f-dnTSTQazBSlvfRV n-
          jQ@powergate.ca:
          [color=blue]
          > Vittorio wrote:[color=green]
          >> print"""<a href="mailto:%s ">""" %(campovalore.e ncode('iso-8859-1'))
          >> print campovalore.enc ode('iso-8859-1')
          >> print """</a>"""
          >>[/color]
          > It might help if you showed us the output of "repr(x)" where x is the
          > output of the campovalore.enc ode('iso-8859-1') part above.[/color]

          Thanks Peter for replying.
          This is an example of the output of repr(x) as you requested:

          'carr\xe0@pluto .it'

          Results:
          link opened from IE6->Outlook: it works
          link opened from IE6->Pocomail: it works
          link opened from Firefox->Outlook: characters with accent fail
          link opened from Firefox->Pocomail: characters with accent fail

          It looks like having to do more with Firefox than with Python itself but
          maybe someone can help anyway?

          vittorio

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            • Vittorio
              #4
              Re: email link and foreign accent

              Vittorio <renmybiru@libe ro.it> wrote in news:Xns96896D4 6D9DCCSoToSpeak @
              195.110.128.18:
              [color=blue]
              > Thanks Peter for replying.
              > This is an example of the output of repr(x) as you requested:
              >
              > 'carr\xe0@pluto .it'
              >
              > Results:
              > link opened from IE6->Outlook: it works
              > link opened from IE6->Pocomail: it works
              > link opened from Firefox->Outlook: characters with accent fail
              > link opened from Firefox->Pocomail: characters with accent fail[/color]

              adjournment:

              link opened from Firefox->Thunderbird: it works
              link opened from IE6->Thunderbird: it works

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