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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

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Message 53:
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?UC:_=C6=D8=C5?=
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 23:17:53 +0200
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3)

lc: =E6=F8=E5=


Here is "æøå" = "=E6=F8=E5="

subject seems to be encoded differently....

On 5/4/07, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <ggt667 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> > >>
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> > ---
> > Erik Andreas Cayré
> > Spangsbjerg Møllevej 169
> > 6705 Esbjerg Ø
> >
> > Privat Tel: 75150512
> > Mobil: 40161183
> >
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