Hi Walter, Just wanted to let you know , I have tried without html_safe already it didnt encode the "<" in to "<" . Regarding the second point, I need to send the plain password since this token password which needs to be used only once by the customer.
Regards, Logan Sent from Mobile device. On 16 May 2015 23:29, "Walter Lee Davis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 16, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Loganathan Sellapa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have to send user profile password via email, where password will have > special characters as below > > > > >>"><<<<<!@#$%^&*()_-+=|{}[]/.,` > > > > Whenever I send email, some of the special characters are not being > displayed, I have used the html_safe, also set the meta tag as below, but > special characters are always being removed in the mails, can anybody let > me know the way to display special characters in mailer views? > > > > <meta content='text/html charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'> > > > > Actual password: >>><<<<<!@#$%^&*()_-+=|{}[]/.,` > > Password in mail: >>><<<` > > Two things: first, html_safe means "this character doesn't need to be > escaped" when actually, you mean the opposite. The character is probably > there, but the fact that you have used angle brackets (but not escaped them > to < and >) means that it's being interpreted as the beginning of a tag > and ignored. Try using nothing at all to escape it, which will mean that > Rails does its usual thing and converts any character that has special > meaning in HTML into an entity. It will appear in the browser/email client > as the correct character. > > Second thing: why on earth are you sending a password in clear text in an > e-mail, unless that's also inside a PGP block? You may as well write it on > a postcard (or hire a sky-writer). > > Walter > > > > > regards, > > Loganathan > > Mob: +91 7760780741 | +91 9944414388 > > Skype: loganathan.sellappa > > ViewMe > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAD_i5MHghC%3DSi%3DXrJkrdqMGsaFL3ttPABgN-%2B4Ej_%2BjkGrWD7A%40mail.gmail.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/363D3D58-4621-4634-B61C-D0B2329D0272%40wdstudio.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAD_i5MEYCfxEAh-71Jnei__E7s_jAQa0ADA%3DVP_MbMYRFB3MmA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
