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Old 07-28-2016
Need special charecter in email body
I have a unix shell script generate.sh that writes to a file hello.txt using redirect.

For example:
Code:
echo " Today's report shows progress by: " > hello.txt

This hello.txt is then send as an email body to the recipients.

My requirement is to have this special characters(up arrow and down arrow key symbol like you can see in the attachmentNeed special charecter in email body-imagespng) in the email.
Last edited by rbatte1; 07-28-2016 at 07:39 AM.. Reason: CODE tags
# 2  
Old 07-28-2016
try sending file as html, use: & # 8593; and & # 8595; (no spaces)
# 3  
Old 07-28-2016
Both the sending and receiving mail system need to understand a unicode character encoding, e.g. UTF-8, to create and interpret the respective char. Use 0x2B83 (hex) or 11139 (dec) to encode the wanted char.
# 4  
Old 07-28-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Both the sending and receiving mail system need to understand a unicode character encoding, e.g. UTF-8, to create and interpret the respective char. Use 0x2B83 (hex) or 11139 (dec) to encode the wanted char.
While i appreciate your suggestion, I need the syntax for your suggestion that will work on my system ?

Code:
uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4v sparc sun4v

# 5  
Old 07-28-2016
man printf
# 6  
Old 07-28-2016
Here is an example:-
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

{
        print "From: from@domain.com"
        print "To: to@domain.com"
        print "MIME-Version: 1.0"
        print "Content-Type: text/html"
        print "Subject: email subject"
        print "<html>"
        print "<body>"
        print "<p>Today's report shows progress by: 999,999 <b>& # 8595;</b></p>"
        print "</body>"
        print "</html>"
} | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

Please remove spaces between & # 8595; when you copy.
This User Gave Thanks to Yoda For This Post:
mohtashims
# 7  
Old 07-28-2016
Although this was pretty straight forward ... i swear i went off road looking to get it work. So @Yoda you really helped.

I will test this tomorrow and see if it works.
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