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

[Erik Andreas Cayré]

Den 04/05/2007 kl. 21.21 skrev Dale Bengston:

> Hi Erik,
>
> Sometimes these things can be typeface-specific.

That's right, although in my testcase the Euro sign is present in the  
typeface used by my mail client.

> Also, what does the character look like in $message, before you  
> decode it? Is it ¬ before that?

I'm putting it in there myself with this:

// Return price with appended EURO equivalent, if page viewed in non- 
danish language
	function price($dkk, $euro=7.4571) {
		$price = (($_SESSION['lang'] == 'da') ? 'kr. ' :  
'DKK ') . $dkk . ',-' . (($_SESSION['lang'] != 'da') ?  
' (€ ' . number_format ($dkk / $euro, 2, ',', '.') .  
')' : '');
		return $price;
	}

/Erik

> 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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>>
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