Simmo Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Hi Forum, Has anybody a work around for the problem of carriage returns being removed from text strings sent to an email application? Whether using send email or open URL my text all appears on the same line. I do have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddyB Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Hi Chris, I'm not sure I understand your problem. I use send mail with outlook express to put the contents of a text field into the body of my email message and carriage returns in the text field are reflected in the email message, it looks the same as it did in FileMaker. I do have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 Hi ED, Thanks for the response. I am using Open URL rather than Send mail, as I need to use the bcc field, which Send mail doesn't allow for (as you say, the text looks fine when using Send mail). Interestingly enough, Outlook displays the text correctly, while Outlook Express leaves off the carriage returns, but only after I sustitute the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddyB Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 OK, I see, sorry I misunderstood. Try %0A instead of %0D, that should do it! Best regards Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddyB Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Just for info The ASCII for carriage return is as you say %0D %0A is the ASCII for (line feed/new line) It depends on the application you are putting the ASCII characters into as to which you use, but you can always use both it won't cause any problem, this would probably be the better option actually. %0A%0D Best regards Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo Posted February 25, 2004 Author Share Posted February 25, 2004 Hi Ed, Thanks Ed, that fixed everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazMatt Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Hmm, I had the same problem and inserting the <br> tag in my calc fields made my HTML pretty again. I'm using SMTPit, however, so maybe that's why it's different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryk Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 The bottleneck of the carriage return replacement is not of course what you see in your own E-mail-client but what the clients see in their E-mail...When using Netscape 4.79 as my default E-mail client I used %0A as the replacement, which looked ok in Netscape. I got the %0A replacement tip somewhere from the internet, but it sucks..Outlook Express misunderstands the %0A. When using %0A%0D my Outlook Express (Mac) displays an extra square next to the carriage return, so that does not work well either. In my experience just replacing the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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