Mort-lemur Posted February 8, 2013 Posted February 8, 2013 Hi, Trying to send out some HTML emails as a newsletter via mailbeez bulkmailer. All the £ signs in the email are prefixed with an A (with a cap on) when the email is opened. I have tried setting the email header to UETF-8 as in the code below: Dear $firstname $lastname,<br> <meta name="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <div align="left"> <table border="3" width="600" id="AutoNumber1" height="506" bordercolor="#008000"> and I am also using the £ method of inserting the £ symbol as below: <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b>Product xyz From </b><font color="#FF0000"><b>£13.61</b></font></p> But still I get the prefix and its driving me crazy !! Any help would be appreciated Now running on a fully modded, Mobile Friendly 2.3.4 Store with the Excellent MTS installed - See my profile for the mods installed ..... So much thanks for all the help given along the way by forum members.
MrPhil Posted February 9, 2013 Posted February 9, 2013 That's the UTF-8 code for £ being displayed in a single byte encoding, probably Latin-1. Your email is not being displayed in UTF-8 for whatever reason, which I can't diagnose from here. I do note that you have the <meta> tag for the encoding within the <body> of the page, rather than in the <head> -- that could be a large part of the problem (that tag should be ignored outside the head).
Mort-lemur Posted February 9, 2013 Author Posted February 9, 2013 Thanks MrPhil, I think I may have solved the problem - my mail system (Thunderbird) was set to view messages in Western ISO 8859-1 instead of UTF-8, changed the setting and all now displays correctly. Many Thanks Now running on a fully modded, Mobile Friendly 2.3.4 Store with the Excellent MTS installed - See my profile for the mods installed ..... So much thanks for all the help given along the way by forum members.
Mort-lemur Posted February 9, 2013 Author Posted February 9, 2013 Looks like I spoke too soon - its defaulting back to western - so something in the email is setting this - Ill take this over to the Mailbeez support thread Now running on a fully modded, Mobile Friendly 2.3.4 Store with the Excellent MTS installed - See my profile for the mods installed ..... So much thanks for all the help given along the way by forum members.
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