how to uniencode text for VCard v. 3.0?

[Dave Cragg]

On 11 Jun 2008, at 15:05, Devin Asay wrote:
>>>
>>> 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? ;-)

Yeah. I read that somewhere. :-)

Dave