If we use 'XYZ & Contracting Company' in subject this is sent as 'XYZ &amp Contracting Company'. Please suggest how to fix

[sierracbe]

Problem description

If we use 'XYZ & Contracting Company' in subject this is sent as 'XYZ &amp Contracting Company'. Please suggest how to fix

Code to reproduce

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    $intro_mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer();
$intro_mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";

$intro_mail->isSMTP();

$intro_mail->Host = $host;
$intro_mail->Username = $smtpusername;
$intro_mail->Password = $smtppassword;
$intro_mail->SMTP_PORT=$port;
$intro_mail->SMTPSecure = $smtpsecure;			
$intro_mail->SMTPAuth = true;     // turn on SMTP authentication

$intro_mail->From=$fromid;
						
$intro_mail->FromName = $fromname;

$intro_mail->IsHTML(true);  
    $companyname="XYZ & Contracting Company";
$intro_mail->Subject=$companyname." - ".$message_title_intro;

[Vijay-Chaudhary]

$subject = 'XYZ & Contracting Company';
$encodedSubject = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject, 'UTF-8', 'Q');
Hi @sierracbe , You can try mb_encode_mimeheader php method for more specific encoding

[Synchro]

No, don't do that, you're only going to cause problems with that as it's duplicating what PHPMailer already does, so you're likely to end up with double or corrupt encoding.

PHPMailer does not apply HTML entity encoding anywhere except debug output, so it's not PHPMailer that's doing this.