Retaining apostrophes in email subject line

[ohboyatoytruck]

Hi there,

 

I am getting this in a PHP generated email:

 

ACWA Member/Subscriber: Melody’s Children’s Service

 

The line of code in the php is:

 

 

$subject = "ACWA Member/Subscriber: $membername";

 

I have tried htmlentitiies, html_entity_decode, htmlspecialchars but nothing seems to work.

 

I haven't used htmlentities anywhere else in the code for this variable.

 

Any suggestions?

 

All advice gratefully received.

[requinix]

And how about the rest of your code?

[hansford]

And is the data coming from the database. Character corruption.

[ohboyatoytruck]

Yep the data is coming from the database but it looks fine in there and if I copy and paste it into Word it still looks fine.

 

In the Export Data dialog in the database, there are character set options as follows:

 

Windows (ANSI)

ASCII (DOS)

Macintosh

Unicode (UTF-16)

Unicode (UTF-    <--- this is currently selected.

[ohboyatoytruck]

And how about the rest of your code?

 

Rest of the code is good but there are no other instances of apostrophes so not sure if that helps much.

[requinix]

I'll rephrase:

 

How about posting the rest of your code?

[hansford]

Requinix is right - post the rest of the code.

And is the charset set to match the chars in the database.

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

[ohboyatoytruck]

 

Requinix is right - post the rest of the code.

And is the charset set to match the chars in the database.

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

yep its utf-8 on the page