html email problem

I am sending emails to my members however the email is coming out wrong in Gmail, have a look below:

Originial

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Gmail (and probably others)

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Any idea on how to fix this?

Yes, use UTF-8 character encoding always. This looks like the typical "paste from word" miscoding.

You've got a character set mismatch. The Â shows up when you've got UTF-8 source but some other output, like ISO-8859.

... and don't you mean "is coming out WRONG in gmail"?

It's always best to replace special HTML characters.

Common ones are:

™ = ™

& = &

" = "

© = ©

» = »

« = «

£ = £

Larger reference: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

As said earlier this usually happens when copying and pasting from Word, I usually copy from word to Windows Note Pad and then I do a manual entity replace.

There is also on-line tools you can use:

Google "html encoding tool"