Re: mail() encoded subject line

Hello, on 10/16/2006 02:32 PM Emil Edeholt said the following: > I hope this is not too off topic but I have a problem when I use mail(). > When I add the header Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 the body > of the mail is encoded fine but the subject is not encoded. I've tried > to utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() the subject text but neither helps. > > Any idea of how to pass what encoding to use on an email subject? Headers encoding is independent of message body encoding set by Content-Type. Headers need to be encoded with q-encoding algorithm. You may want to take a look at this popular MIME message class. Just use the SetEncodedHeader function to add the Subject or another header that may use 8 bit (non-ASCII) data. The character set encoding of the message is set using the default_charset class variable. But you can use a different character set encoding for individual headers, using the 3rd parameter of the SetEncodedHeader function. Take a look at the test_email_message.php example script that shows how to send messages with non-ASCII characters in the Subject and body. 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/