how to uniencode text for VCard v. 3.0?

[Devin Asay]

On Jun 11, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:

>
> 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.)

Actually, you should be able to do it in one statement (untested):

put uniDecode(the unicodeText of fld "vcard","UTF8") into URL  
("binfile:...")

After all, it's all about the smallest number of lines of code,  
right? ;-)

Regards,

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University