problem with HTML formatted email

freebie

Hi,
I'm reading the contents of an html file that exists on the server and sending it as an HTML mail.
For some reason, some parts gets stripped and the source of the email when received shows like the following:

<html>
<head>
<title>Some Newsletter</title>
<meta http-equiv=ontent-Type' content=ext/html; charset=o-8859-1'>
</head>
<body>
<span style=ackground-color:blue;color:white'>This is some HTML formatted text</span>
</body>
</html>

It strips the first single quote of every attribute as well as the following character. If I use addslashes, it only removes the first single quote, but not the character afterwards (but is still a problem). Does anyone have insight as to why this happens? Any solutions? I think it might have something to do with the "equals sign". Thanks for any help.

freebie

For now, I found a temporary work around. I just make sure there are two spaces (not html spaces, but just whitespaces) after any "equals sign" (ie, before an attribute value). The equals sign seems to eat any two characters after it (including whitespace).
Does anyone have any ideas why this might occur?

Kenderized

could also trying escaping single quotes

<?
$testtext="the 'image is 'not what it 'seems";
$newtext = preg_replace("/(')/", "\'", $testtext);
echo "\nthis is the old text ".$testtext."\n\n";
echo "\nthis is the NEW text ".$newtext."\n\n";
?>

Good Luck
AJ

freebie

I did some researching and found that it has to do with the fact that I specified "quoted-printable" as the "Content-Transfer-Encoding". I'm just going to try specifying "7-bit" instead.
Thanks.