Re: E-Mail Attachment Filename Encoding Problem

Per Jessen schrieb:

Edmund Hertle wrote:

my problem is that I send an e-mail with an attachment (pdf file). I get the filename out of a mysql table. While using echo or downloading the file, the filename is showed as expected but as an attachment it is not properly encoded: Should be: PC-Beschaffung 2008 (nur für Lehre) Will be: US-ASCII''PC-Beschaffung%202008%20(nur%20f%C3%BCr%20Lehre) I think I have to encode the file name and already tried utf8encode but this didn't help.

I think you need to mime-encode it - mb_encode_mimeheader(). I haven't tried it with attachments though. /Per

To me it looks like he only wants the spaces and special-chars in the filename to be "readable" again. I guess you submit the filename over the url, by doing that it automatically gets "url-encoded" (spaces and special chars are converted to entities). If that's all you want (convert the entities to chars again), you need to apply a urldecode() on the filename, then I think you should be fine. Greets Calle