Outlook vCard and UTF-8

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Brutus

Hi,
I'm trying to get my UTF-8 encoded vCard working with Outlook. It
has Japanese cahracters and Outlook keeps trying to convert in to the
ANSI code page. In this case I have Shift_JIS installed on the
system. I want it to use the UTF-8 encoding.
If I save the file with the ANSI encoding ("CHARSET=shift_jis"),
Outlook loads the file just fine. How can I get it to use UTF-8?
Also anywone know how ot make complatible de Japanese export of
Outlook with Outlook Express? The later one seems to miss the
"CHARSET=shift_jis" when parsing...

Thanks!
 
Hi,
I'm trying to get my UTF-8 encoded vCard working with Outlook. It
has Japanese cahracters and Outlook keeps trying to convert in to the
ANSI code page. In this case I have Shift_JIS installed on the
system. I want it to use the UTF-8 encoding.
If I save the file with the ANSI encoding ("CHARSET=shift_jis"),
Outlook loads the file just fine. How can I get it to use UTF-8?
Also anywone know how ot make complatible de Japanese export of
Outlook with Outlook Express? The later one seems to miss the
"CHARSET=shift_jis" when parsing...

Thanks!
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Ok, sice nobody reply to me I've founded my self. To outlook import
successfully the vcf file, it must be saved as Unicode(UTF-8) without
BOM. The on those fields where could be some none ASCII you hav eto
set it like this:

N;CHARSET=utf-8:$B%9%?!<%"%;%C%H>Z7t(B;$B;v6H=j>pJs8!:w$,(B

Note the CHARSET=utf-8, this says to outlook to read the next values
as utf-8.

This approach didn't worked for WAB, any ideas why? WAB seems to
ignore the "CHARSET="
 
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