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

[Dale Bengston]

Hi Erik,

Sometimes these things can be typeface-specific. Also, what does the  
character look like in $message, before you decode it? Is it ¬  
before that?

Dale

On May 4, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Erik Andreas Cayré 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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