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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

if you set encoding to: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252;
then € symbol = "=80"

I removed the address from and to as those are irrelevant from the message below
"=804000" reads like "€4000" in the mailprogram

& t 53
Message 53:
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed
Subject: test
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 23:10:12 +0200
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3)

=804000

test=

On 5/4/07, Erik Andreas Cayré <erik at cayre.dk> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Erik Andreas Cayré
> >> Spangsbjerg Møllevej 169
> >> DK-6705 Esbjerg Ø
> >>
> >> Home Tel: +45 75150512
> >> Mobile: +45 40161183
> >>
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> >> -- Albert Einstein
> >>
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> ---
> Erik Andreas Cayré
> Spangsbjerg Møllevej 169
> 6705 Esbjerg Ø
>
> Privat Tel: 75150512
> Mobil: 40161183
>
> ---
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