Re: character set when sending emails with PHP

Hello, on 08/29/2006 09:04 AM Angelo Zanetti said the following: > I have various PHP CRONTAB scripts that run and send automated emails to > people, the subject often contains the "TM" character: ™, in most of the > email clients the character shows correctly but in some webmail > applications the character is replaced with a square, it obviously > doesnt recognise the character. Now if I forward one the mails from the > email client to the webmail account it then recognises and shows the > character correctly? Very weird as it is the same mail just forwarded, > is the problem that the mail forwarded from the email client uses a > different content type when sent? The one specified in the PHP script is > as follows: > > $mail->setHeader("Content-type", "text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1"); > > Or is there something wrong with the charset that I'm specifying above? The content-type header only applies to that message body part. The character set of the headers is defined in a different way using q-encoding. Take a look at this class that lets you define headers with whatever encoding and character set you need to use: 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/