[SOLVED] strange charactor when sending mail

[ldoozer]

I have a html order form which when submitted goes to a php page which sends the order to an email address in html formal rather than plain txt

 

the headers i use to do this is:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";

 

But

 

When the email comes through i get a funny charactor in front of a pound sign: £20.00

 

Any one got any ideas why?

 

Thanks

ldoozer

 

 

[MadTechie]

where is the £20.00, coming from ?

database, post etc ?

little more code please

[ldoozer]

the  is not coming from a db just from a form post.

[Rithiur]

This sounds like it could be because of some encoding problems. Is both the form page in UTF-8 and is the mail client reading the email as UTF-8? Also, make sure that the browser and mail client IS really using the character encoding. (because sometimes the clients may ignore character encoding)

 

The reason it's displayed like that, is because the UTF-8 code in hex for pound sign is 0xC2 0xA3, which in Latin-1 charset translates into "£".

[redarrow]

post the full code intrested now?

 

[redarrow]

Use this it works always....

 

 

$to = 'bob@barnyard.com';
$subject = 'Wakeup bob!';
$message = '<b>yo</b>, whassup?';
$headers = "From: server@barnyard.com\r\n" .
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
        "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
        "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
        "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";

// Send
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

[ldoozer]

Thanks all thats done the trick.