how to uniencode text for VCard v. 3.0?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Hugh,

> Hi Klaus,
> You don't need to. Just include the appropriate text-encode tag  
> before the text so unlauts etc will be interpreted correctly.

Yes, thank you, I know this from the 2.1 vcard format, but lazy moi  
wanted to avoid this extra typing ;-)
Dave's solution is exactly what I need and works fine on windows, too.

> Otherwise the spec says the parser should default to ascii-safe.
>
> /H

Best

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de