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Asked: 2026-06-18T23:22:46+00:00

I’m sending a PHP email using: mail($email, $subject, $message, $header); I layout the message

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I’m sending a PHP email using:

mail($email, $subject, $message, $header);

I layout the message like this which includes some tables with prices like this:

$message = <<<EOF

<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid black; padding-bottom:4px; padding-top:4px; padding-right: 10px; text-align:right;\">£</td>

EOF;

On certain email clients the £ appears as £.

I understand this is to do with character formatting. But how do set UTF-8 character set when sending a PHP email in this way?

TIA

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  1. Editorial Team

    Firstly, you could use 

    &pound;

    instead of the raw £ character.

    To set character encoding of email, set up the headers:

    $from    = 'me@domain.com';
$to      = 'to@domain.com';
$subject = 'Subject';


$headers = "From: " . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";

$message = 'message';

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
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