[FX.php List] The Euro sign (€ or € ) in email messages

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Why don't you just try to send the message to an account that you can
read with mail( on the unix command line ) and check the encoding
used?

ggt667

On 5/4/07, Erik Andreas Cayré <erik at cayre.dk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After the discussion som days ago regarding (un)encoding text, I
> decided to finally try to solve a problem which has been waiting for
> my attention.
>
> At the end of a completed purchase, the customer is presented with a
> web page receipt, and the script generating it also sends an email
> receipt to the customer.
>
> Reading the docs for html_entity_decode() I decided to try the
> charset ISO-8859-15, since it supposedly contains the Euro sign € (in
> case any of you don't know, it's the currency symbol for the
> relatively new common currency now in use in most European countries)
>
> Snippets of my code:
> $message2 = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_COMPAT, 'ISO-8859-15');
>
> $mailheaders2 = 'From: dagkort.dk <php at dagkort.dk>' . '
> ' .'Reply-To: dagkort.dk <service at dagkort.dk>' . '
> ' . 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . '
> ' . 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15' . '
> ' . 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . '
> ' . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
>
> // send testmail receipt
>
>         mail('erik.cayre at dagkort.dk', $subject, wordwrap($message2, 70),
> $mailheaders2);
>
> The messages sent using the above do not correctly show the Euro sign.
> Instead I get this '¬' (don't know the name of that character, but
> it's &#xAC; when HTML encoded)
>
> Does anyone have a solution, or a clue?
>
>
> ---
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