Re: Can't get Euro symbol to appear in message body
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.blat |
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| Message-ID | <702800CF757247E1BDE27A59AAA80E28@chip> |
> Hi, > > Thanks for responding, I've now ruled out anything VBA related as I'm just > manually running a .bat file containing the blat command line. I tried > with -unicode and -charset="UTF-8" but to no avail (I get a Ç character in > both cases). Here's the command (mail server/emails/password replaced): > > c:\blat.exe -server xxxxxxxx -subject "Testing Euro sign €" -body "Test > email with € sign" -f xxxxxxxx -to xxxxxxxx -u xxxxxxxx -pw xxxxxxxx -q > > The odd thing is, if I copy the above and paste into a command prompt, the > € appears as a ?, but when I run it, the € symbol appears fine in the > email. Very strange! > The ? appears because the Windows command prompt does not normally support the Euro symbol, nor do ANSI text files. Your batch file was saved as an ANSI text file, which explains why it shows a the Ç character. When I put your message body into a UTF-8 formatted text file, and your subject line text into another UTF-8 formatted text file, Blat was able to send the Euro symbol just fine. Chip