Re: how to use HTML Symbol Entities with mail() ?

Hello, on 07/01/2010 10:34 AM cr.vegelin@gmail.com said the following: > Hi List, > > I am working on generated emails, using the mail() function. > Works fine, but when including characters like &#8743 (= &and;) or &#8744; (= > &or;) > in the message, these characters are displayed as ? in the emails. > > Snippet: > $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; > $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; > ... > $bool = mail ($mailto, $subject, $body, $headers); > > also tested with: > $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n"; > but without result. > > Any ideas ? > TIA, Cor When those characters appear as question marks is because you are using a font in the messages that does not have characters with those codes. Try including the sections of those characters with some span tags like this <span style="font-family: font-name-here">&#8744;</span> -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/