Why does email show accented characters as question marks?

Asked Jan 28 '18 at 02:14

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If I have the following string in my MySQL database (FYI, Collation is utf8mb4_unicode_ci):

Bebé Elosúa Sierra

It displays fine on my site if I echo it back using htmlentities, but if I send an email via AmazonSES, it shows up (at least in Gmail) like this.

It shows in the body of the email as:

Beb? Elos?a Sierra

And more oddly, it shows in the subject of the email as:

Beb???????????? Elos????????????a Sierra

Is there anyway to prevent this, or is it something on Google/Gmail's end that I have no control over?

asked Jan 28 '18 at 02:14

user3304303

The font doesn't have those characters? – Joe Phillips Jan 28 '18 at 02:15
maybe this will help you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12952784/e-with-accent-doesnt-show-correctly – Dan Jan 28 '18 at 04:33
See "question mark" in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38363566/trouble-with-utf8-characters-what-i-see-is-not-what-i-stored – Rick James Jan 29 '18 at 22:04

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