Hi,

I'm having problem with character encoding in PHP mail functions.

CODE:
$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
$headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=0-92766976-1174383938=:29106";
$to = "EMAIL REMOVED";
$subject = $_POST['cat'];
$body = $_POST['text'];
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers))
{
echo('<p>Message successfully sent!</p><br /><a
href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
}
else
{
echo('<p>Message delivery failed...</p><br /><a
href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
}

Im receiving mail as you see using yahoo.com. It all works except it
doesn't show croatian letters... I also tried with encoding utf-8, same
thing...
ÄŒÄâ€*ŽÅÂ*ÄÂ�

Please help, thank you very much!

2007. 03. 20, kedd keltezéssel 10.54-kor Delta Storm ezt ÃÂ*rta:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problem with character encoding in PHP mail functions.
>
> CODE:
> $headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
> $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
> $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
> $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary=0-92766976-1174383938=:29106";
> $to = "EMAIL REMOVED";
> $subject = $_POST['cat'];
> $body = $_POST['text'];

you should check those values first before putting them into mail().
they can contain spammer tricks like putting newlines in the subject and
then cc header lines or something similar....

> if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers))
> {
> echo('<p>Message successfully sent!</p><br /><a
> href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
> }
> else
> {
> echo('<p>Message delivery failed...</p><br /><a
> href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
> }
>
> Im receiving mail as you see using yahoo.com. It all works except it
> doesn't show croatian letters... I also tried with encoding utf-8, same
> thing...
> ÄŒÄâ€*ŽÅÂ*ÄÂ�

what is the charset of the webpage displaying the form which triggers
this function? it must be set to the same value as the email otherwise
your email sending function won't receive the croatian letters at all,
so it cannot send them too...

hope that helps
Zoltán Németh

>
> Please help, thank you very much!
>

Hi.

Recently I have this kind of issue.
This is a possible solution:

$text="message text";
$subject="message subject";
$header="From: EMAIL REMOVED\r\n".
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n".
"Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n".
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";


$subject2=utf8_encode($subject);
$text2=utf8_encode($text);
mail("EMAIL REMOVED",$subject,$text2,$heade r);

This encodes message to UTF-8 and should work.

2007. március 20. 10.54 dátummal Delta Storm ezt ÃÂ*rta:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problem with character encoding in PHP mail functions.
>
> CODE:
> $headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
> $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
> $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
> $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary=0-92766976-1174383938=:29106";
> $to = "EMAIL REMOVED";
> $subject = $_POST['cat'];
> $body = $_POST['text'];
> if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers))
> {
> echo('<p>Message successfully sent!</p><br /><a
> href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
> }
> else
> {
> echo('<p>Message delivery failed...</p><br /><a
> href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
> }
>
> Im receiving mail as you see using yahoo.com. It all works except it
> doesn't show croatian letters... I also tried with encoding utf-8, same
> thing...
> ÄŒÄâ€*ŽÅÂ*ÄÂ�
>
> Please help, thank you very much!

On Tue, March 20, 2007 4:54 am, Delta Storm wrote:

Disclosure:
What I understand of Unicode could fit in a matchbook...

> I'm having problem with character encoding in PHP mail functions.
>
> CODE:
> $headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
> $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
> $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;

WILD GUESS ALERT!!!
You're trying to p*** 16-bit characters in an 8bit transfer encoding,
whatever the heck that is...

Seems to me you need a bigger "bucket"...

You do realize that sending HTML Enhanced (cough, cough) email is
quite likely to get it marked as spam and never seen by the intended
recipient, right?...

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Know what I want?
I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist.
http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch
Yeah, I get a buck. So?

Hello,

on 03/20/2007 06:54 AM Delta Storm said the following:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problem with character encoding in PHP mail functions.
>
> CODE:
> $headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
> $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
> $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
> $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary=0-92766976-1174383938=:29106";
> $to = "EMAIL REMOVED";
> $subject = $_POST['cat'];
> $body = $_POST['text'];
> if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers))
> {
> echo('<p>Message successfully sent!</p><br /><a
> href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
> }
> else
> {
> echo('<p>Message delivery failed...</p><br /><a
> href="showarticle.php?cid=5&id=3">Povratak</a>');
> }
>
> Im receiving mail as you see using yahoo.com. It all works except it
> doesn't show croatian letters... I also tried with encoding utf-8, same
> thing...
> ÄŒÄâ€*ŽÅÂ*ÄÂ�

Several things are wrong.

I think Croatian letters need ISO-8859-2 character set. utf-8 is fine
too. Make sure you use the same encoding as you use for the HTML page
where your form is.

Other than that, you should not use 8bit content transfer encoding when
you have non-ASCII characters in the text.

You should use quoted-printable encoding for the body and q-encoding for
the headers.

You have multiple Content-Type headers. Only one is right. For messages
with HTML, you should use only multipart/alternative. However the body
must enclose both a text/plain and a text/html alternative parts.

This is all a bit complicated to do with a small script like you have.
It is much simpler to use ready to use components to do the hard work of
message ***embly for you.

I use this MIME message cl***. It can handle all you need including
non-ASCII character encoding. Take a look at the
test_simple_html_mail_message.php example script.

http://www.phpcl***es.org/mimemessage


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