plain text problem euro sign

Hi!

I read throught some threads that were discussing this ... and read a lot on other pages so.. now i have no idea what to do to fix the problem i have with the euro sign in plain text email.
whatever i use as the euro sign with or without a "nbsp" behind it... with or without the plain text currency sign conversion rules in the admin / emailsettings.. i always get a ? or "€  ... or something alike.

the header of the email of recieve in plain text is:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

I can form a euro sign, mail it to myself but then outlook uses
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=Windows-1252; reply-type=original

as a charset.
Can i change it somewhere for ALL text email?? Will it help??

Thanks!!

What version of Zen Cart are you running?

In v1.3.x ... in the Configuration ... Email Options ...

Convert currencies for Text emails
What currency conversions do you need for Text emails?
Default = £,£:€,€

i am using 1.3.0.1 .
and tested with and without the convertion rules as in your post and
in backend: admin/email settings...
used to insert € just like that into the currency sign field with and without a nbsp ... et cet...

thanks for checking this!

Use the € in the currency setting ... then let the translator for the email do its thing on text emails ...

Hi,

I did that ( removed even the nbsp ) but still it shows a ? in the email.

Might it be something that has to do with the way i send email??
The mail server maybe? ... do not think so but ...

It could be the character set used while sending your emails, and what character sets your mailserver supports. Perhaps it's translating things when it receives it for sending.

If you turn on the email archiving feature (Admin->Config->Email Options), and grab the email archive search add-on ( http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=198 ), then you can review the "sent" messages to see whether there was any incorrect translation taking place within Zen Cart prior to sending.

Thanks wil investigate and see what can be done.

as we're having the same problem - &€  - in text-emails, i was wondering if this issue was resolved.
regards, anna

Make sure that you are using this setting:

Convert currencies for Text emails
What currency conversions do you need for Text emails?
Default = £,£:€,€

It looks like you may have an extra & in there ...

hi Ajeh,
I wish I had, but this is what I have:
Converte valute per le emails in formato Testo €,€
(in Italian)
any clue? Thanks.

What settings do you have on your currency itself?

(excuse me for the delay:
Title:
Euro
Code:
EURO
Symbol Left:
€ 
Symbol Right:

Decimal Point:
.
Thousands Point:
,
Decimal Places:
2
Value:
1.00000000

(in the HTML mail it shows correct)

thanks for your help.

The CODE for euro is:
EUR

you are showing:
EURO

Did you change something on the database table for currencies as that is suppose to be a 3 character field ...

no sorry, the code is EUR

Sorry for being blind ... I was having a user moment here ... :blink:

Try using this setting:

Convert currencies for Text emails
What currency conversions do you need for Text emails?
Default =  , :£,£:€,€

 , :£,£:€,€ 

That is a space after the comma following the   ...

I understand just part of it, - , -, but it works!
it is perfect now. Thank you very much.

So, what about the è, à etc. in txt-mails..?

You can try translations for the TEXT emails by adding them to this same section ...

OK, I wanted to make sure, I didn't miss another solution for this issue.
Thanks very much again, regards, anna

A number of things can contribute to issues on the TEXT emails, but this is one of the more common problems ...

All that TEXT translation is doing is replacing HTML code with other letters, symbols, etc. that are understandable in the TEXT format vs the HTML format ...