PHPMailer not following HTML special chars #2724
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PHPMailer doesn't care what content you use; it's entirely up to you how to handle it. Plain-text messages do not know about HTML entities, so they won't work in that context (presumably what you're seeing). If you want to convert HTML entities back to real characters, pass your message body through |
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I had more in the HTML it sent, but I didn't format it correctly for Github to render it correctly (as in I have head and body tags as well in that.) Went through it again, though I also temporarily removed base64 encoding to be able to see the raw HTML and the following is received |
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OK, that's a reasonable test, and it is correctly formatted, apart from the Why are you using base64 encoding? It will get your messages classed as spam fairly reliably, there's really no good reason to do that. |
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Only reason I did base64, is because without me doing it, it returns I was revising the test script on the fly, but other than that this is what actually renders (after I moved the semicolon back to where it should be.) This is a test email in HTML. Testing some HTML entities: $ (dollar sign expected) & (ampersand expected) This is in bold This word is in |
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PHPMailer changes the charset automatically because sending email specifying an 8-bit charset when you're only using 7-bit chars is an RFC contravention. Put in a character that requires an 8-bit encoding and it won't change to ASCII. If those chars are encoded identically, the difference will be down to the client. The dollar sign is not special in HTML, so there is no particular reason to encode it as an entity. I also did another test that confirmed that any entity that is not understood by the client will be rendered as is, without conversion to a character. Try |
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By saying it is not understood by the client, you are referring to the browser itself, correct? If I copy the raw contents of the message and put it into an html file and then view it on the browser, the If I got to, I'll run it through |
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For example, if I use
$while PHPMailer is set to HTML content, which would translate in HTML to just the $ sign, PHPMailer sends it as$in plaintext and not translating it to the '$'. If I explicitly have it send a '$', it works fine.Is there a way to get it to translate the
$to '$'?As another example,
works fine.Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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