accented characters in email fields

[jiggy1965]

I'm using this script to have email sent to me through a mail form:

<?php
// initialize variables for To and Subject fields
$to = 'info@testing.nl';
$subject = 'Een testmail';
$from = $_POST["from"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$comments = $_POST["comments"];

// build message body from variables received in the POST array
$message = "Van: $from \n\n";
$message .= "Email: $email \n\n";
$message .= "Bericht: $comments";
$message = stripslashes($message);

//convert flash line breaks
$message= str_replace("\r", "\n", $message);
$message=nl2br($message);

// add additional email headers for more user-friendly reply
$additionalHeaders  = "From: $from <".$email.">\r\n";
$additionalHeaders .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n";
$additionalHeaders .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$additionalHeaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";


// send email message
$OK = mail($to, $subject, $message, $additionalHeaders);
// let Flash know what the result was
if ($OK) {
  echo 'sent=OK';
  }
  else {
  echo 'sent=failed&reason='. urlencode('Er is een probleem met de server. Probeer het later nog eens.');
  }
?>

The problem is that I can't get accented characters appear into the From: cc: bcc: fields. For example, when I fill the From field with 'René' it appears as 'RenX' in the From: field. I've set everything to utf-8 but that doesn't seem to matter. When I receive an html text mail, the From: fields displays accented characters as strange codes, like RenA@ or RenX for René.

In the message text itself it varies: it either displays René when the mail is viewed as plain text mail, or RenA@ when the mail is views as html text. How can I get accented characters appear inside email fields too? And also in the body text when the email is viewed as html text?

[jiggy1965]

It comes down to this. Since flash outputs in utf-8 I used utf-8 in here too. But narrowing it down to the most basic part:

<?php


$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset= UTF-8\r\n";
$headers .= "From: René <email@adres.nl>\r\n";


$OK = mail('info@testmail.nl', 'A question', 'René is my name', $headers);


if ($OK) {
  echo 'sent=OK';
  }
  else {
  echo 'sent=failed&reason='. urlencode('There is a problem with the server. Try again later.');
  }
?>

When I view this through webmail I get to see RenX in the From field where it should be René. Changing charset to ISO8859-1 won't work either. I get RenX in the From field and RenA@ in the message part. And when I switch in webmail from text/html to text/plain it says Ren? in the message part.

How can I make it display René in all headers and message? Both in html mode and in plain text mode?

[pziecina]

Hi

Simply setting your form to utf-8 is o/k for your OS, but this does not mean that your php server will use utf-8, try setting this using the php function "htmlspecialchars()".

See - http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/utf-8.

PZ

www.pziecina.com