Question

I’m trying to send an email containing Arabic text, my problem is that when I add the Arabic text to the email, it changes it to random letters (to do with the character encoding of the email – which I can’t change).

Is there a built in function or a custom function I can use to convert the Arabic to HTML Codes (ا) so it will then appear in my HTML email?

Answer 1

Leave the HTML escapes (ex ס) in, and turn the e-mail to HTML by setting ContentType to text/html

'Create mailer
mailer.ContentType = "text/html"
'User mailer

To convert the unicode to HTML escapes you can use the built in function HTMLEncode.

mailer.BodyText =  Server.HTMLEncode(body)

_{Note: Your viewer will need to have the appropriate set of glyphs installed.}