note 58608 added to ref.mail

i spent 4 hours finding out how to send UTF-8 plain text mail, so here is my working sollution (PHP 5, Debian): <?php $subject = "subject"; $message = "message" //dont forget quotes around "name", else it won't be displayed correctly in utf-8 $from = "From: \"".$_POST['name']."\" <".$_POST['mail'].">"; mb_language('Neutral'); mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8"); mb_http_input("UTF-8"); mb_http_output("UTF-8"); mb_send_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from); ?> hopefully this will be usefull for someone.. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+58608 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58608&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58608&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58608&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58608&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58608&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58608&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58608&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+58608&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php