Title: Plain text version „eats out“ Š
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plain text version „eats out“ Š

 *  Resolved [dainius.kaupaitis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dainius-kaupaitis/)
 * (@dainius-kaupaitis)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plain-text-version-eats-out-scaron/)
 * When email text is converted from HTML to plain-text such characters as š and
   Š are „eated out“. In HTML code they appear as entities `š` and `Š`
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 *  [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * (@mattyrob)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plain-text-version-eats-out-scaron/#post-4650902)
 * [@dainius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dainius/),
 * Having done a little reading about this it seems to be because š is not available
   in a plain text character set so it cannot be replaced.
 *  Thread Starter [dainius.kaupaitis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dainius-kaupaitis/)
 * (@dainius-kaupaitis)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plain-text-version-eats-out-scaron/#post-4650908)
 * Lithuanian (and some others) alphabet has such „abnormal“ characters: ąčęėįšųūž.
   Every character present in utf8. And only Š letter causes „problems“ in some 
   WYSIWYG editors – it is converted to HTML entity.
    I fixed this problem at you
   plugin code by adding line at `class-s2-core.php:252`: `$message = str_replace(
   array('š','Š'), array('š','Š'), $message);` But still not tested.
   I know, I will loose this on next plugin update. So it would be kind if you add
   this fix in your future update (maybe another – more „correct“ place in code).
   As I mentioned, this problem appears to many users, because this character is„
   popular“ not only in one language.
 *  Thread Starter [dainius.kaupaitis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dainius-kaupaitis/)
 * (@dainius-kaupaitis)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plain-text-version-eats-out-scaron/#post-4650910)
 * Also you delete a lot of potential characters by
    `$message = preg_replace('|&[
   ^a][^m][^p].{0,3};|', '', $message);` Why not to decode them back using `html_entity_decode()`?
   This could be safe, because here we talk about converting from HTML to plain-
   text mail.
 * I think instead of doing:
 *     ```
       $message = preg_replace('|&[^a][^m][^p].{0,3};|', '', $message);
       $message = preg_replace('|&|', '&', $message);
       ```
   
 * it would be better to do:
 *     ```
       $message = html_entity_decode( $message, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8' );
       ```
   
 * BTW this also will fix `Š` problems 🙂
 *  [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * (@mattyrob)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plain-text-version-eats-out-scaron/#post-4650936)
 * [@dainius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dainius/),
 * Those preg_replace() calls are pretty old code now and I think your approach 
   is simpler and better. I’ll get your change rolled into the next version.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plain-text-version-eats-out-scaron/#post-4650936)
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