Convert Arabic text to HTML Code characters

Question

I\'m trying to send an email containing Arabic text, my problem is that when I add the Arabic text to the email, it changes it to random letters (to do with the character en

Answer 1

Leave the HTML escapes (ex ס) in, and turn the e-mail to HTML by setting ContentType to text/html

'Create mailer
mailer.ContentType = "text/html"
'User mailer

To convert the unicode to HTML escapes you can use the built in function HTMLEncode.

mailer.BodyText =  Server.HTMLEncode(body)

_{Note: Your viewer will need to have the appropriate set of glyphs installed.}