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GManProgram
GManProgram

Reputation: 161

Euro Character not displaying properly in HTML message Outlook 2007

I am sending an e-mail message containing HTML in the body. Below is a snippet of what is giving me grief.

EDIT: Here is more of the email, with sensitive information removed

MIME-Version: 1.0
From: 
To: 
Date:
Subject:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<strong>€3,500</strong>

</body>
</html>

"€" is the UTF-8 encoding of the Euro symbol. So most email clients seem to render the Euro character just fine, EXCEPT in Microsoft Outlook 2007 (maybe later versions as well), where the Euro character is displayed as this "€".

Anybody know why this is happening?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4544

Answers (3)

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189679

The message's MIME headers may or may not take precedence over the HTML meta tags in different clients. You'd better make sure they both agree.

:
--mimeboundary
Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit

<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
:

Upvotes: 3

Dmitry Streblechenko
Dmitry Streblechenko

Reputation: 66286

How are you setting the HTML? Are you setting the HTMLBody property? In that case the value must be UTF-16 since all strings in IDispatch-friendly COM are 2 byte UTF-16 strings.

It would be much better to property HTML-encode the special character rather than rely on the code page conversion.

Upvotes: 0

Yosoyke
Yosoyke

Reputation: 485

Maybe you can try &euro; instead of '€'

Upvotes: 6

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