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

[Bob Patin]

Thanks, but I'm not sending mail from FileMaker. I'm sending mail  
using a PHP function that someone gave me a couple of years ago and  
which works really well (i think it might be called "Sock Mail").

Here's another clue: while it shows on the screen just fine, it  
doesn't get sent properly in email. Is there something that I can do  
to make sure that a plain-text email would show the same accented  
text (or is this a function of an individual's computer settings)?

Bob



On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:23 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

>>>
> FileMaker appears to HTML encode non-ASCII output via the XML  
> interface by default. This should be fine by itself, but if you’re  
> parsing your data with htmlentities (or str_replace) or similar, it  
> will take the ampersand (HTML entities escape character) and encode  
> it as “&” (without quotes). This appears to be what’s happening  
> in your case. You’ll probably have to avoid htmlentities in this case.
>
> One other tip – if you’re using str_replace to manually find ‘&’  
> and replace with ‘&’, in order to avoid the above problem  
> search for ‘& ‘ (note the trailing space) and replace with ‘&  
> ‘. This will skip any ampersand that actually is being used as an  
> entity escape sequence.
>

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