Re: Interpolating subject in 'mailto' links

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On March 10, 2002 at 19:58, Mooffie wrote:

> <a href="mailto:
> mailinglist@my-server.com
> ?subject=Re:%20$SUBJECTNA:U$
> &amp;in-reply-to=$MSGID:U$
> &amp;references=$MSGID:U$
> ">
> Reply</a>
> 
> (I added newlines just to make it easier to read.)
> 
> This works fine when the subject consists of ASCII letters, but if the 
> subject is of the form:
> 
> =?iso-8859-1?B?...encoded text...?=
> 
> I get the literal string above (URL encoded) instead of the decoded text 
> (URL encoded).

Have a look at the DECODEHEADS resource and the example provided
in the CHARSETCONVERTERS resource.

--ewh