I am trying to insert a pound symbol into a plain text email using .net but it appears as £
Any ideas how I can fix this?
thanks
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I am trying to insert a pound symbol into a plain text email using .net but it appears as £
Any ideas how I can fix this?
thanks
The only way to get it working is to make sure you encode the email with the same character encoding as to what you decode it with. In this case, you are encoding the email in UTF-8 but decoding it as if it was Latin-1. It might be overkill for this case, but The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets is a good read.
One solution is to add
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8as a header.