multibyte subject lines in mail()

[Tea_J]

how yall doin mates? can someone tell me how to properly send SUBJECT LINES in mail()
but the twist is... the subject line is composed of multibyte characters
(japanese, korean, chinese)

i did try the manual .. mail() section doesnt speak anything of utf-8 or, multibyte SUBJECT LINES... the closes i found was utf8_encode() ....but that didnt do anything at all.. it may have done something if it was regular output.. but it's in the subjectline of an email

Please help

Tea

[Tea_J]

m sorry if i forgot to mention, i have already successfuly sent the japanese email by using headers charset=utf-8 .... actually, the previous problem was "HOW DO YOU MAKE PHP OUTPUT IN JAPANESE??" ..i mean, i couldnt create values with japanese characters in PHP.. so what i did was i wrote it in a plain text file with a unicode type of editor (i used dreamweaver).

ok heres what i did..

$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "[e-mail]";

//HERE's how i got the japanese characters

$subject = file_get_contents('subject.txt');
$msg = file_get_contents('message.txt');

$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";

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

this worked perfectly.. PHP FINALLY PASSED THE JAPANESE CHARACTERS PROPERLY.. BUT... only for the message body.. the SUBJECT LINE IS GARBAGE.. I was thinking, this maybe because "$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";" only affects the BODY of the email and not the SUBJECT.

So how do you make this work????