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Conor
Conor

Reputation: 670

HTML Entities in email from php mail()

I'm having a strange problem trying to get an HTML email campaign to render the proper text I need.

I'm the legalese at the bottom of my email, there are instances where I need to add a trademark symbol. I've converted all those instances to ™, $#0153; or ™, and when I run the mail script locally, everything looks as it should, however when I run the script on the intended server, all those trademark instances show an empty box character instead.

I should note that elsewhere on the email, I'm using other HTML entities that render fine... –, ’, “ - No problems, only this damn ™ thats driving me crazy.

The offending code:
....DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant....

renders as

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2403

Answers (2)

Conor
Conor

Reputation: 670

Problem Solved!

Apparently you can also use the entity code ™ for a trademark, which I was unaware of. It still doesnt explain why any of the other entity codes didn't work, but it has provided me with a working solution, so I'm calling this question answered.

Thanks to all for your help, much appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360762

Check what character sets your "home" server and the "intended" server are using. If they're mismatched (like utf-8 at home, but latin-1 at work), that'd trash any of the non-standard ascii characters like the copyright symbol.

Upvotes: 0

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