title: How to prevent GMail from converting text to URL?
body: <p>I have a small issue with GMail. My company has a ".fr" part in its name, and when we send newletters, GMail shows it as an internet adress and autmatically adds a link to it.</p>
  
  <p>That's not what I want.</p>
  
  <p>I found <a href="http://www.emailonacid.com/blog/details/C13/12_things_you_must_know_when_developing_for_gmail_and_gmail_mobile_apps#gmail_tip9" rel="nofollow">a very good solution here</a>, and it works like a charm when I manually edit the HTML file. The magic is to add a character GMail does not know, like <code>&amp;#173;</code>, so that is does not transform the text into a link.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is when I try to automate this replacement :</p>
  
  <pre><code>$body = str_replace('my company.fr', "my company&amp;#173;.fr", $body);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>PHP does not seem to see this <code>&amp;#173;</code> character, and for the little story, neither does Google...</p>
  
  <p>Do you know of a way to achieve my goal, that is not having a link on my company name ?</p>
  
  <p>I could do the second option in the above mentioned article, but that, to my opinion, would be my last option.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your replies !</p>