How to show chinese characters in Outlook subject line.

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Peter - 12 Oct 2005 21:40 GMT

Hi All,

We have a program that need to click a link to popup outlook email client by
pre-populating To, Subject fields. it works fine with English. but not
chinese.

I have Windows XP with MUI (chinese) and set chinese as my default language.
so now my windows shows all chinese menus etc.

If we do not encoding the subject content, it works, but if we do (as we
need, since there might be some URL specific chars like '%' etc in the
subject content). then the chinese char not show up properly in subject
field any more.

The html without encoding:
<html>
<body>
<a href=mailto:xinhong_wang@hotmail.com?subject=下午%test is now>mail me!</a>
</script>
</body>
</html>

The html with encoding:

<html>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
var test = "<a href=\"mailto:xinhong_wang@hotmail.com?subject=";
test += escape("下午%test is now?");
test += "\">mail me!</a>";
document.write(test);
</script>
</body>
</html>

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Thanks very much in advance.
Peter

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PA Bear - 12 Oct 2005 21:43 GMT

This is an Outlook Express 5.5 newsgroup.

Outlook newsgroups:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Calendaring
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.configuration
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.General
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_AddIns
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_VBA
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.ThirdPartyUtil

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

> Hi All,
>
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> Thanks very much in advance.
> Peter

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Peter - 12 Oct 2005 23:47 GMT

Thanks. But how I can nav to those newsgroups from the left side pane... I
only see Office Solutions Development -> outlook.vba etc.

> This is an Outlook Express 5.5 newsgroup.
>
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> > Thanks very much in advance.
> > Peter

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PA Bear - 12 Oct 2005 23:54 GMT

If you copy/paste a link into IE Address Bar and click GO, the newsgroup
will open in your default newsreader (Outlook Express, most likely)...or use
the following to open OL General newsgroup in your browser:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.
public.outlook.general

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

> Thanks. But how I can nav to those newsgroups from the left side pane...
> I
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>>> Thanks very much in advance.
>>> Peter

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