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James MV
James MV

Reputation: 8727

 appearing in HTML email

I'm sending a PHP email using:

mail($email, $subject, $message, $header);

I layout the message like this which includes some tables with prices like this:

$message = <<<EOF

<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid black; padding-bottom:4px; padding-top:4px; padding-right: 10px; text-align:right;\">£</td>

EOF;

On certain email clients the £ appears as £.

I understand this is to do with character formatting. But how do set UTF-8 character set when sending a PHP email in this way?

TIA

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3642

Answers (3)

MarcoS
MarcoS

Reputation: 17721

This is a more general solution than fin1te's:

$header = array(
    "From: {$email}",
    "MIME-Version: 1.0",
    "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8"
);
$result = mail($email, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $header));

Upvotes: 3

martincarlin87
martincarlin87

Reputation: 11062

Firstly, you could use 

&pound;

instead of the raw £ character.

To set character encoding of email, set up the headers:

$from    = '[email protected]';
$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Subject';


$headers = "From: " . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";

$message = 'message';

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Upvotes: 3

fin1te
fin1te

Reputation: 4351

Use the HTML entity for the pound sign

&pound;

Upvotes: 3

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