HI Rick,

I am working on an integration of a third party API that offers appointment scheduling. They have a feature that lets you generate an invitation that you can send to someone that includes an .ics file attachment. They suggest sending two attachments, one in base64 and one in 7bit. Base64 is easy with vfp with strconv() but not sure what to do with 7bit.

I found this old article of yours - https://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp#VFPUnicodeData and wondered if I am interpreting your suggestion properly. Are you suggesting to use this lcUTF8Str = STRCONV(lcBinStr,10) in lieu of a 7bit direct version?

Thanks in advance.

Not sure what UTF-8 has to do with 7bit encoding?

I'm not sure why 7bit encoding should be a required option - I don't even know offhand what that means or what it's used for. 7bit is like MIME encoding of emails where anything above 128 is encoded.

Either way I have no tooling that provides this.

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