emailing html trouble with, Quoted-Printable encoding

[weisd]

Hello...

This is my first post here so, thank in advance for any help...

via our site I have a link on some product pages that allow visitors to request a quote via email. The quote that is sent is in html format. I have discovered that most mail clients display html using what I have learned is called, Quoted-Printable encoding.

What happens is the mail client adds special encoding for certain text characters. For most html tags this is no issue. For instance, the "=" becomes =3D. So, this tag, CONTENT="no-cache"> ends up like this in the mail client, CONTENT=3D"no-cache">

My issue is, I use a third party shopping cart, (VurtualCart) and there button forms, add to cart, view cart, check out etc... do not like the encoding and when a visitor tries to use add to cart or any other button, virtual carts server replies with an error message...

here is what the html code for one of the forms looks like,

<FORM action="http://www.cartserver.com/sc/cart.cgi" method=POST> <INPUT TYPE=hidden name=item VALUE="b-8308"> <INPUT type=image border=0 name=view src=NewViewCart.jpg width=90 height=40></FORM>

Now replace = with =3D and the form will not work...

Any Ideas how I can get around this? I have opened a ticket with virtualCart to see if they can fix it on there end but I am not holding out much hope for that...

[Izzmo]

You might have to put someone that you want to use UTF-8 encoding type.