# Corrupted Pound (£) character with ActionMailer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/corrupted-pound-a-character-with-actionmailer/148317>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 11, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/corrupted-pound-a-character-with-actionmailer/148317 "2008-09-11T18:21:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/a698b9/32.png) [@vanight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vanight)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/corrupted-pound-a-character-with-actionmailer/148317/1 "2008-09-11T18:21:30Z")

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When sending a plain text email with ActionMailer, the £ symbol is  
corrupted to “£”.

This doesn’t happen in development, only production

The charset in the email header is utf-8, I’ve also tried sending as  
ISO-8859-1 with no change

Its an Ubuntu server using Sendmail.