[SOLVED] strange text formatting

[jpratt]

I am connecting to an email account, reading its contents and placing it in a database. everything looks good but some of the text comes formated strange. some of it looks like this:

 

I use the fine-cut nozzles on my Hyperthreme 1250. I am having the same pro=

blem on=20

 

As you can see it cuts off sentences midword, places an = sign, and end of sentences it places and =20. Does anyone know what causes this? I tried a few different string functions on it to clear it up, but nothing helped. Can someone give me an idea what is going on? Thanks.

[gijew]

Do you have htmlentities on there anywhere. I know (think) %20 is for spaces so perhaps it's trying to parse out some entities and it's getting scrambled along the way. Weird.

[jpratt]

I do have the following as the message is coming into the db:

 

$text = htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES);

 

The strange thing is that it only does it to some emails coming in but not all.

[BobcatM]

Not real sure what's going on, might try posting some code?

 

On a side note, I used a Hypertherm 1250 today haha..

[gijew]

Try using htmlentities() instead. See if that clears it up.

 

Do you have the encoding set on the page? Perhaps they are coming from non-english users and that's screwing it up. Dunno...

[jpratt]

I found the reason. Some of the emails were coming in as quoted printable strings. There are two functions that decode this.

 

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.quoted-printable-decode.php

 

and if using the imap module for email:

 

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-qprint.php

 

I use the imap module to get my email so I will probably just work that into my class. Thanks for all the suggestions.