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Help with infuriating British Pound Sign

Asked by manicwaszoot in PHP and Databases, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), MySQL Server

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Hi There,

I have issues with an email newsletter that is due to be sent.

I have to put in a £ sign in the text version and HTML version of my newsletter.

I have a database table with an introduction that reads


""
Welcome to the world of chinalife! Your one stop shop to looking and feeling better.

To help you ease into the changing season, we have dropped £5 into your online account for you to spend as you please on our range of beauty products, teas and tonics. Just visit our online shop and have a browse. Once you have added over £10 of exciting products into your basket, you can enter this discount code to receive a £5 credit: ommittedcode . Your code will expire at the end of September so don't forget to use it up!

Enjoy,

Don and Liselle
""

This mysql table is stored as
latin1_swedish_ci

The pages used to input the data via forms is encoded ISO-8859-1

When I display the data on my HTML page I use
$newtext = str_replace("£","£",$newtext);

To give the correct HTML version of the pound symbol.

However when I do this my page replaces the L character with the pound symbol and leaves the £ alone.

The same thing happens if I use htmlentities()

When it comes to the text version that is sent via email, outlook omits the pound sign and thunderbird shows a ? mark.  
So I tried to do the following to the text version:
$newtext = str_replace("£","GBP:",$newtext);

But again it replaces the letter L with GBP: and left the £ symbol alone.

Any help much appreciated as this is driving me nuts.

Kind Regards,
Matt

You can see the html output im having trouble with here -> http://www.chinalifeweb.com/news/newsletter2.php

http://www.chinalifeweb.com/news/newsletter2.php
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function bb2html($text)
{
 
        $text = str_replace("\n",'[br]',$text);
 
//FORMAT BB CODE TO HTML
  $bbcode = array("<", ">",
                "[list]", "[*]", "[/list]", 
                "[img]", "[/img]", 
                "[b]", "[/b]", 
                "[u]", "[/u]", 
                "[i]", "[/i]",
                '[color="', "[/color]",
                "[size=\"", "[/size]",
                '[url="', "[/url]",
                "[mail=\"", "[/mail]",
                "[code]", "[/code]",
                "[quote]", "[/quote]",
				"[p]", "[/p]",
                '[br]',
				'"]');
				
  $htmlcode = array("&lt;", "&gt;",
                "<ul class=\"list\">", "</li><li>", "</li></ul>", 
                "<img src=\"", "\">", 
                "<b>", "</b>", 
                "<u>", "</u>", 
                "<i>", "</i>",
                "<span style=\"color:", "</span>",
                "<span style=\"font-size:", "</span>",
                '<a href="', "</a>",
                "<a href=\"mailto:", "</a>",
                "<code>", "</code>",
                "<br/><div class=\"quote\" \"><p>", "</p><div style=\"float: right;\"><img src=\"/images/closequote.png\" alt=\"Quote\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\"></div><div style=\"clear: both;\"></div></div>",
				"<p>", "</p>",
				"<br/>",
                '">');
  $newtext = str_replace($bbcode, $htmlcode, $text);
  
$newtext = str_replace("<br/><ul class=\"list\">","<ul class=\"list\">",$newtext);
   
$newtext = str_replace("<br/></li>","</li>",$newtext);//third pass
   
$newtext = str_replace("<ul class=\"list\"></li>","<ul class=\"list\">",$newtext);
   
   $newtext = str_replace("£","&pound;",$newtext);
   
  return $newtext;
}
 
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