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Zoran
Zoran

Reputation: 1371

php send mail script encoding issue on windows

I have problem with non english characters with this e-mail script. If I set the script to send e-mail to my gmail account, I have no problem. However, if I set the script to send email to my domain account and if i open the email with windows live mail or with microsoft outlook then the e-mail is not readable. I must to go to encoding menu, and then select the utf-8, and then i can read the email.

If I open the mail on iMac mail client, i have no problem.

My customer see this as big problem and want me to solve it. Anyone can help?

Here is the code: 

<?php
// send the form to the specify email

// CONFIG VARS
$subject = "mysite.com | contact form";
$to = "[email protected]";
$from = '[email protected]';


//data
$msg = "Name: "  .$_POST['namesup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Email: "  .$_POST['emailsup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Phone: "  .$_POST['phonesup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Message: "  .$_POST['yourtextsup']    ."<br>\n";

//Headers
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers .= "From: <".$from. ">" ;


//send
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
?>

Any help will be deeply appreciated. Zoran

Upvotes: 1

Views: 934

Answers (3)

Tony Stark
Tony Stark

Reputation: 8094

Checkout this code it will work for me, 

<?php

$subject = "mysite.com | contact form";
$to = "[email protected]";
$from = '[email protected]';

 $msg = '<html>
            <head>
            </head>
                <body>
                <p>
                               Name: ".$_POST['namesup']."<br>
                               Email: ".$_POST['emailsup']."<br>
                               Phone: ".$_POST['phonesup']."<br>
                               Message: ".$_POST['yourtextsup']."<br>
                    </p>
                </body>
        </html>';

    $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP \r\n";
    $headers .= "From: <".$from. ">" ;

    mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers);
?>

This line $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n"; is resolved your issue of like Arabic language or others.

Upvotes: 1

Spikey21
Spikey21

Reputation: 439

Try changing your scripts charset to:

<?php
// send the form to the specify email

// CONFIG VARS
$subject = "mysite.com | contact form";
$to = "[email protected]";
$from = '[email protected]';


//data
$msg = "Name: "  .$_POST['namesup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Email: "  .$_POST['emailsup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Phone: "  .$_POST['phonesup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Message: "  .$_POST['yourtextsup']    ."<br>\n";

//Headers
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
$headers .= "From: <".$from. ">" ;


//send
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
?>

Upvotes: 0

Gareth Cornish
Gareth Cornish

Reputation: 4356

I would suggest making sure your message is valid HTML, including the <html> and <head> tags, and also make sure you include the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=UTF-8" /> tag. So:

//data
$msg = '<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=UTF-8" /></head><body>';
$msg .= "Name: "  .$_POST['namesup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Email: "  .$_POST['emailsup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Phone: "  .$_POST['phonesup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= "Message: "  .$_POST['yourtextsup']    ."<br>\n";
$msg .= '</body></html>';

Upvotes: 0

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