[FX.php List] Trying to send email with lots of accented letters

[Kevin Futter]

On 14/8/07 12:09 PM, "Nick" <whatdoyouwant at gmail.com> wrote:

> well, http://www.php.net/html_entity_decode might be a place to start looking.
> either that or str_replace the &amp; to &?  It really depends on your data, as
> well as how much you trust your data..
> 
> your main problem is the &amp;#233; needs to be just &#233; (without the
> "amp;" ) to display on the page as é.
> 
> On 8/13/07, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>> I have a French client who's asked me to write a script for sending an email
>> containing the results of various queries. So far so good...
>> 
>> Except that when a word has accented letters, it comes out like this:
>> 
>> Tache: Rough &amp;#233;lectricit&amp;#233; (confirm&amp;#233;)
>> 
>> ... instead of looking like this:
>> 
>> Tache: Rough Rough électricité (confirmé)
>> 
>> I've already put the following META tag into the page that assembles the
>> email text
>> 
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>> 
>> ... but I'm getting that ugly text above.
>> 
>> Is there a PHP command that would fix this, or should I look elsewhere?
>> 
FileMaker appears to HTML encode non-ASCII output via the XML interface by
default. This should be fine by itself, but if you¹re parsing your data with
htmlentities (or str_replace) or similar, it will take the ampersand (HTML
entities escape character) and encode it as ³&amp;² (without quotes). This
appears to be what¹s happening in your case. You¹ll probably have to avoid
htmlentities in this case.

One other tip ­ if you¹re using str_replace to manually find Œ&¹ and replace
with Œ&amp;¹, in order to avoid the above problem search for Œ& Œ (note the
trailing space) and replace with Œ&amp; Œ. This will skip any ampersand that
actually is being used as an entity escape sequence.


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Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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