In sending emails to our Russian members I have the email send as UTF-8 in the header... it works fine, however whitespace is converted into this weird character: “3 â€

it appears to be that it is caused by whitespace in the acryllic language. so I was told I had to convert all whitespace to this: 
 

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however when I do this, it also converts the whitespace inside the html tags thus making it not work. so how can I swap the whitespace, which I do like this: 
my $_swapWithText = ' ';
$__htmlEmailText =~ s/ /$_swapWithText/eg;

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How can I do this ONLY for stuff NOT IN html tags? I know how to swap out only html, but cannot figure out how to swap whitespace that is in the whole variable except what is in side the html tags...

Your wisdom will be greatly appreciated.

Richard

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