Does hCard understand encodings?

Question

I'm using the Operator extension to firefox.

When I go to http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard (which is encoded as utf-8) and try to export the hCard for Tantek Çelik (at the top) to Outlook, it comes through as Tantek Çelik.

Does anyone know if this is a problem with Outlook, the Operator extension, or if the hCard microformat just doesn't support encodings?

I've tried using the &...; equivalent, with the same result.

Answer 1

hCard is a means of transcoding vCard to HTML. vCard itself does not specify character encodings for its content, but a MIME Content-Type header used to deliver the vCard data, such as over HTTP, can specify an encoding. The vCard data has to be decoded to Unicode, then converted to HTML in whatever encoding the HTML uses. I am not familiar with Operator, but I suspect either it is not decoding/encoding the hCard correctly before importing to Outlook, or the MicroFormats website is not formatting the hCard correctly to begin with.