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FidoBoy
FidoBoy

Reputation: 31

Encoding mailto link with body text

I'm trying to create a mailto link using PHP. Basically my function gets the body text from database and then creates the html tag like this:

<a href="mailto:?subject=sample&body=sometexthere">send</a>

well, the problem is that my body text may contain non standard characters, like accents and so, so i need to encode the body text before output it; but i don't know how to do it because when my mail client opens (Windows Live Mail) it displays wrong characters for the body.

How can i solve this? what is the right encoding to use unicode text into the body?

many thanks in advance,

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6186

Answers (4)

cazort
cazort

Reputation: 786

I encountered this same problem; my first intuition was to use urlencode() but that did not work.

Try using:

rawurlencode()

In general this function is more reliable when working across different systems; a major reason is that urlencode converts spaces to + which will be left as-is by most mail clients.

So for example:

echo '<a href="mailto:?subject=sample&body='.rawurlencode($your_text_variable).'">send</a>';

This worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

anweibel
anweibel

Reputation: 485

Be aware that there seems to be an issue with Outlook if there are non-Ascii characters in sometexthere.

See this post: mailto special characters

Upvotes: 0

E Ciotti
E Ciotti

Reputation: 4963

You have to implement those replacements

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368

Upvotes: 0

zebediah49
zebediah49

Reputation: 7611

I beleive you're looking for php's htmlentities() function.

Upvotes: 0

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