Re: Sending UTF-8 mail with mail()

Hello, on 06/13/2006 01:37 PM Peter Lauri said the following: > Yes, that class I am aware of. However, I only want to send text/plain > messages, not MIME messages. MIME includes plain text messages. MIME is what is called the set of standard rules defined in RFC documents for sending e-mail. 8 bit text must be encoded as quoted-printable as defined in RFC 2045 or else you will have the problems that you have described: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt > -----Original Message----- > From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@acm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:36 AM > To: Peter Lauri > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: Sending UTF-8 mail with mail() > > Hello, > > on 06/13/2006 06:09 AM Peter Lauri said the following: >> How can I send UTF-8 mails with the mail() function. Right now I am doing: >> >> mail('theemail@domain.com', 'Subject', 'Message', >> "From: The Sender <sender@domain.com> \n" . >> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 \n" . >> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n") >> >> The message is being sent, but the UTF-8 specific characters are not being >> presented. Is there any fix on this? >> >> The messages etc are coming from a form. Is it possible to set the charset >> for the form? > > UTF-8 text is 8 bit. You must encode that message with quoted-printable, > not 7 bit. > > If you don't know how to do it right, you may want to try this class. > Try the test_email_message.php example that demonstrates how to send > messages with non-ASCII characters. > > The default encoding is ISO-8859-1 but if you have text already encoded > as UTF-8, you can just set the default_charset class variable to 'UTF-8' > to make the messages be sent correctly. > > http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage > > -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.metastorage.net/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/