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Special "Special" Character Support HTML (in email)

I'm trying to send an email with PHP mailer, I'm reading an HTML and passing it as the body.

file_get_contents('email.html');

but when I'm receiving the mail some of the characters like © “ ” are getting converted like © “ â€.

I have <meta charset="UTF-8"/> under the body tag as well as I tried that under head tag. When I open the email.html in Safari (as a web page) or I open the email from Gmail in Safari <meta charset="UTF-8"/> seems to work, but inside Mac Mail it's not working.

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I have a CSS file linked in the HTML so if it's possible to fix that from CSS that would be great.

Solution

  • Set the character set that PHPMailer uses like this:

    $mail->CharSet = ‘utf-8’;