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

[Erik Andreas Cayré]

Den 04/05/2007 kl. 22.16 skrev 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?

I don't have the expertise to set up that scenario.

When viewing all headers in my client (Apples Mail.app included with  
Mac OS X) it tells me the encoding is ISO-8859-15, which is what I  
specified in the headers used in the php mail() function.

Is that not to be trusted?

> 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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