pound sign in sending email

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not sure if anybody can help me here. but as a last resort I thought I would try here.

I have a pound sign (£) in a message I want to send by email. I’ve tried changign caharcetr sets and headers when sending using ‘mail’.

$headers .= “MIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-type: text/html; charset=‘utf-8’\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n” ;

$headers .= “MIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-type: text/html; charset=‘iso-8859-1’\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n” ;

tried converting £ to £

but when I receive my email I get A^ £
(A^ is one character)

saw something which indictaed it might be a set up of the server.

Operating system CentOS Linux 5.4 Perl version 5.008008
Path to Perl /usr/bin/perl Postfix version 2.3.3
Mail injection command /usr/lib/sendmail -t BIND version 9.3.6
Apache version 2.2.3 PHP version 5.1.6
Webalizer version 2.01-10 Logrotate version 3.7.4
MySQL version 5.0.77 ProFTPd version 1.30
SpamAssasssin version 3.2.5 ClamAV version 0.95.2

thanks in advance for any help.
Brian

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It looks like you’re sending the email as HTML… if that’s the case, could you try using the HTML character code for a pound sign in the message body?

That is, use the code:

£

In your HTML email – in theory, that should do the trick!

-Eric

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yes, its an html email
tried converting £ to & pound ;

I think it must be the mail system that is causing this to happen, though I may be wrong

thanks Brian