Encoding mailto link with body text

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I'm trying to create a mailto link using PHP. Basically my function gets the body text from database and then creates the html tag like this:

<a href="mailto:?subject=sample&body=sometexthere">send</a>

well, the problem is that my body text may contain non standard characters, like accents and so, so i need to encode the body text before output it; but i don't know how to do it because when my mail client opens (Windows Live Mail) it displays wrong characters for the body.

How can i solve this? what is the right encoding to use unicode text into the body?

many thanks in advance,

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '10 at 02:20

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I beleive you're looking for php's htmlentities() function.

answered Jun 24 '10 at 02:20

zebediah49

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It doesn't work, i've encoded the body text using htmlentities but when i click the link my email client opens and there are wrong caracters instead my accented chars... – FidoBoy Jun 24 '10 at 03:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 07 '13 at 15:58

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You have to implement those replacements

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368

answered Jun 07 '13 at 15:58

E Ciotti

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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Be aware that there seems to be an issue with Outlook if there are non-Ascii characters in sometexthere.

See this post: mailto special characters

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Apr 17 '15 at 08:27

anweibel

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Encoding mailto link with body text

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