In Lotus Notes R5 use @URLEncode("Domino""adam foster") to encode strings for URLs.
This is not a documented feature. The reason why is that if you try using "Domino" as the first parameter and try and encode strings that include "=" "!" "&" and probably a few others you get a strange result.
If you use "Internet" or "Platform" instead of "Domino" the strings encode ok.
This will encode names like O'Callaghan and Yl§nen and Tyrväinen.
Then use special field Query_String_Decoded to get the nicely decoded string.
For R4 applications, see below for code:
Certain characters are either determined to be unsafe or reserved, and thus may need to be encoded by escape sequences before a URL can be specified. These
escape sequences are of the format "%+ASCII-character-hexadecimal value".All unsafe characters should be encoded when constructing a URL, and these characters with their escape sequences are listed below:
SPACE %20
< %3C
> %3E
# %23
% %25
{ %7B
} %7D
| %7C
\ %5C
^ %5E
~ %7E
[ %5B
] %5D
` %60
Reserved characters are characters which have special meaning within specific schemes, and must be encoded when used in such schemes if they are to be used for a purpose other than that meaning. The escape sequences are listed below:
; %3B
/ %2F
? %3F
: %3A
@ %40
= %3D
& %26
+ %2B
. %2E
' %27 useful for irish names o'callaghan etc
I am always forgetting spaces in URLS here is a bit of code to neatly make sure spaces are replaced:
Dim s As New notessession
Dim db As notesdatabase
Set db = s.currentdatabase
Dim server As New notesname(db.server)
temp = "http://"; & server.common & "/" & db.Filepath & "/Display?openagent&name=Adam Foster likes kippers"
Msgbox temp
'Replace spaces with %20 in temp
While Instr(temp, " ")
temp = Left(temp, Instr(temp, " ")-1) & "%20" & Right(temp, Len(temp) - Instr(temp, " "))
Wend
Msgbox temp