How Do I Send a British Pound Symbol Through SMTP?
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is the method by which a server accepts email you send and relays it to other SMTP servers across the Internet until your message reaches its destination. Whether you send an email as plain text or as HTML, the SMTP server merely routes it. The problem with special characters such as the £ (British pound symbol) is that different varieties of email software may encode and interpret the symbol differently. This is a problem particularly with older versions of Microsoft software, which use ASCII character encoding for English instead of the UTF-8 global standard.
