Entities not recognized in mail with CDonts 1

[Stoemp]

Hi,

I'm trying to put up a mailing system to inform our customers with the latest news from our firm and products. I copy-pasted some text from an e-mail I received from a supplier and sent it out with my mailing system. In the text there are some signs with registered trademark (®) that I copy-pasted too. These characters show in the textarea where they are pasted but when I receive the mail, I see that these characters are replaced by the entity code for ® : '& r e g ;'. How can this problem be fixed?

Thanks,
Steven

 

[MartinCurrie]

Try copying the 'R' symbol from Word into your HTML Page.
Here's one I made earlier ®

Hope it works...

 

[Stoemp]

That's what I did. I have copied the ® symbol in the textfield where I typed the rest of the e-mail. It's in a HTML form. In the form I can type in a title and a bodytext for the e-mail I want to send to several people. I copy-pasted the text with the symbols in it to the textarea and submitted the form. When I receive the mail, the ® symbols are replaced by the entity name.

 

[vbkris]

the problem is that the mail will go in plain text format by default ins ASP. if u want those special signs then u have to encode it to HTML format. & r e g ; is how we wold add the ® sign to a HTML page. but if u slater send it as text it will reconvert back to the original way...

do a search on this forum for sending HTML encoded messages...

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[Stoemp]

Thanks, I managed to send my e-mail as HTML, but the title still does not recognize the entities. I suppose this isn't possible or am I wrong?

 

[vbkris]

the title? u can send only the body in HTML. did u try to insert that in the subject?

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[Stoemp]

I used a title with an entity too, but that didn't work out very good. Now I only use entities in the body of the mail.

 

[vbkris]

does that work?

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[Stoemp]

It works, but only if I send the e-mail as HTML. Plain text mail uses the entity code instead of translating the entity (pretty obvious because entities are HTML).