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Reputation: 9552

Problems with Umlaute in HTML email

I am sending an HTML email that contains an ü-Umlaut in it's body. I'm setting the encoding to UTF-8 in the HTML <head>, as well as in the mail header:

HTML

$body = '<html>
            <head>
                <title>My Title</title>
                <meta charset="utf-8">
            </head>
            <body>
                <h1>Here comes the ü-Umlaut</h1>
                ...
                <p>Here comes an ö-Umlaut</p>
            </body>
        </html>';

Mail header

$header  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";

When viewing the email on my iPhone, I see a ü instead of the ü. But when viewing the mail on my gmail account, the ü is displayed correctly. The ö is displayed correctly on both devices.

A colleague of mine correctly views the ü in his email client. But he doesn't see the ö, but a square with a question mark inside (probably something like �).

Now what's gone wrong here and how can I fix it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2200

Answers (1)

user3305711
user3305711

Reputation: 451

Make sure your php file also forces UTF-8:

<?php
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

same counts for the calling html page:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

or if you use ajax:

    $.ajax(
        {
            url: './sendemail.php',
            type: 'POST',
            contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; utf-8",

All participants must use the same charset. Especially the final email client:

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8>

Upvotes: 1

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