how to uniencode text for VCard v. 3.0?

[Dave Cragg]

On 11 Jun 2008, at 09:00, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> as the subject says, I am trying to export addresses to the VCard  
> format 3.0.
> Lots of german adresses with umlauts etc.!
>
> But whatever I try, I cannot figure out how to encode the strings :-/
>
> I thought that:
> put uniencode(fld "vcard","UTF8" into url("binfile:...)
> would do the trick, but nada.
> Mac "Addressbook" does not want to import them and "TextEdit" does  
> not show the umlauts,
> although I open the files manually and select "Textencoding: Unicode  
> UTF8" in the open dialog.
>

Assuming the text in the field is "plain Rev text", and that you need  
to export UTF-8. I think it's a two-step process.

put uniEncode(fld "vcard") into tVar ## create 2-byte unicode
put uniDecode(tVar, "UTF8") into tUTF8Var  ## decode to UTF8
put tUTF8Var iinto url ("binfile:" & etc.)

Dave