Automatic Emails in Non-English Language

[madhu]

I am fairly new to PHP. I know how to send automatic emails using scripts. But I would like to know how can we send an automatic message whose content in in a language other than English (say Russian, French Italian etc.)

My requirement is as follows. I have a regn. Form which collects the native language of person. If the regn. is successful I need to send an automatic email to the person's account in his/her native language. Can I do this by including some extra headers to the mail ? If yes could anybody help me ? If not how can I accomplish it ?

[Anon]

Hi Madhu,

I know you can set a charset header in e-mail, so perhaps this is the way forward..

French and Italian (anything using the Latin alphabet abc etc..) should be OK to send in regular format.

ISO-8859-1 - Latin 1:
Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norweigian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

ISO-8859-2 - Latin 2:
Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovene

ISO-8859-3 - Latin 3:
Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, Turkish

ISO-8859-4 - Latin 4:
Estonian, Latvian, Lituanian

ISO-8859-5 - Cyrillic:
Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian

ISO-8859-6 - Arabic:
Non-Accented Arabic

ISO-8859-7- Modern Greek:
Greek

ISO-8859-8 - Hebrew:
Non-Accented Hebrew

ISO-8859-9 - Latin 5:
Same as ISO-8859-1 with Turkish instead of Icelandic

ISO-8859-10 - Latin 6:
Lappish, Nordic and Eskimo.

Take a look at the following Dutch page (in English) for more information:

http://www.terena.nl/multiling/ml-docs/iso-8859.html

Kind Regards,

David Grant