email link and foreign accent

Vittorio

Hi,

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

print"""<a href="mailto:%s">""" %(campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1'))
print campovalore.encode('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

Jul 19 '05 #1

Peter Hansen

Vittorio wrote:

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

campovalore is an email address with special (italian) characters.
[snip]
Any suggestion is welcome,

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

-Peter

Jul 19 '05 #2

Vittorio

Peter Hansen <pe***@engcorp.com> wrote in news:6f-dnTSTQazBSlvfRVn-
jQ@powergate.ca:

Vittorio wrote:

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

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

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

'carr\xe*@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

Jul 21 '05 #3

Vittorio

Vittorio <re*******@libero.it> wrote in news:Xns96896D46D9DCCSoToSpeak@
195.110.128.18:

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

'carr\xe*@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

adjournment:

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

Jul 21 '05 #4