[Brass]

I'm using the NSWorkspace openURL method and a "mailto:..." URL in my application to send an email message using the default email application (usually Mail.app).

Usually it works fine, however I've figured out that if the body part of the email message in the URL contains a "�" (degrees) character, the body of the email ends up being empty!

I've checked that the "CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes" funtion is not doing anything bizarre, but it is translating the "�" into a "%B0" (which I assume is correct - even if it's not, why would it cause the entire message to be empty?).

The relevant bit's of my code are below. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening or how I can work around the problem?

Code:
subject = (NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes
        (NULL, (CFStringRef)subject,
         NULL, NULL, kCFStringEncodingISOLatin1);
    
    body = (NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes
        (NULL, (CFStringRef)mutableBody,
         NULL, NULL, kCFStringEncodingISOLatin1);
    
    escapedURLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"mailto:?subject=%@&body=%@",
             subject,
             body
             ];

    [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:escapedURLString]];

[Brass]

Just a quick follow up. I've just tried entering the following URL into Camino's URL field:

mailto:?subject=blah&body=blah�blah

and it works fine, including the "�". So why doesn't my code work?

[Brass]

Okay, I've solved the initial problem by using UTF8 encoding instead of Latin encoding. This works fine for most characters. Along the way, I also changed to using NSString's "stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:" method instead of the core foundation function (because it's a lot easier to read).

However, I've now got a problem with "&" characters. It simply does not translate them.

I guess this is because "&" is perfectly legal in URL's (as GET argument seperators). I'll have to manually translate them to %-escapes myself.

[Wevah]

Baleeted: screwed up on an entity, and then realized I didn't properly understand the problem! D'oh!