How to convert numeric entities for emails

[commun1]

hey there,

first of all Happy New Year to you all ;-)

I use an old Homesite-Version (Texteditor, no WYSIWYG) which cannot display any chars that are not ISO-8859-1, so what I did was to use any numeric entities such as ş ... so it is displayed correctly. But how do I get these chars displayed correctly in emails without converting the email to html?

 

[jpadie]

not sure whether this is a php topic?

but can't you just set the charset of the email (in the content-type header element ) before you send it?

 

[commun1]

uh sorry for not being precise...

I'm using PHP's mail()-function to send emails from my web server and my code already includes the character references... I was asking for a way to send a textemail in plain format but replacing the html chars so that it gets UTF-8 for example...

thanks in advance

 

[jpadie]

so you want <b>Bold text</b> to be received as just "Bold Text"? and you are not using "<b>" literals but their numeric equivalent (prefixed with ampersand)?

 

[commun1]

yes, but I'm not talking about regular HTML-Tags but language-specific special characters.

actually it's a turkish website I'm currently programming and it's code has paragrahps with chars like &#351; &#305; in it...

I want these chars to be converted to an encoded form so that outlook (or whatsoever) can display the php parsed mail correctly...

something like an html2utf-function or alike...

 

[jpadie]

sorry for being slow.

if I have properly understood what you want, i think that utf8_encode() might be what you are after.