[FX.php List] The Euro sign (€ or €
) in email messages
Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
ggt667 at gmail.com
Sat May 5 05:18:16 MDT 2007
Can you look at the headers of your mail receipt?
ggt667
On 5/5/07, Erik Andreas Cayré <erik at cayre.dk> wrote:
>
> Den 05/05/2007 kl. 11.34 skrev Gjermund Gusland Thorsen:
>
> > I'm not sure if this does exactly the same as you, but I changed the
> > principle a bit,
> > I hope it is more readable...
> >
> > function price($dkk, $euro=7.4571) {
> > $curr = array(
> > ' (€ ' . number_format ($dkk / $euro, 2, ',', '.') .
> > ')',
> > 'da' => 'DKK ',
> > ''
> > );
> > return $curr[$_SESSION['lang']];
> > }
>
> It doesn't, but that's ok. My price function already works just fine
> as it is (even though it may not be very readable...)
> The problem remains: the Euro character is fine on the web receipt,
> but not in the email receipt...
>
> > On 5/5/07, Erik Andreas Cayré <erik at cayre.dk> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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 ¬ when HTML encoded)
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anyone have a solution, or a clue?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> ---
> >> >> Erik Andreas Cayré
> >> >> Spangsbjerg Møllevej 169
> >> >> DK-6705 Esbjerg Ø
> >> >>
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> >> >> Mobile: +45 40161183
> >> >>
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> ---
> Erik Andreas Cayré
> Spangsbjerg Møllevej 169
> 6705 Esbjerg Ø
>
> Privat Tel: 75150512
> Mobil: 40161183
>
> ---
> »Interesse kan skabe læring på en skala sammenlignet med frygt, som
> en nuklear eksplosion i forhold til en kineser.«
> --Stanley Kubrick
>
> »Kun p....sure mennesker kan ændre verden. Innovation skabes ikke af
> 'markedsanalyse', men af folk, der er afsindigt irriterede over
> tingenes tilstand «
> --Tom Peters
>
> »Hvis du ikke kan forklare det simpelt, forstår du det ikke godt nok.«
> -- Albert Einstein
>
> »Hvis du ikke har tid til at gøre det rigtigt, hvornår vil du så have
> tid til at lave det om?«
> -- John Wooden, basketball coach
>
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