Pound sign in html email messes up charset?

Question

I have an HTML email that pulls non-english characters from the database. By setting the charset as UTF-8 the characters are properly displayed in the email.

However, as part of my email body there's an anchor link (<a href='#here'>here</a>) which uses a pound sign. When I include this line of code, then the non-english characters later in the email are garbled. When I exclude that line - the characters are fine.

Is there a way to avoid this?

Answer 1

You tried using the HTML # number...

& # 35 ;

I put spaces in because it will get rendered as just a # sign :)

Does that work?