I'm trying to send foreign language emails, and while the body of the email isn't being a problem the subject line is. It doesn't show properly in Outlook Express.. I just get a line of boxes or question marks. Does anyone know of a working object/function.. preferably that you've used and know works coz I've tried a few now and had no joy. Oh, and nothing from PEAR either coz it needs to stand alone.

    you need to make your text use correct format:
    http://php.net/mail

    there are a several different mail format standards that are used
    one common is 'base64' something
    php has functions for this - to format mail body text for different standards

      Originally posted by halojoy
      you need to make your text use correct format:
      http://php.net/mail

      there are a several different mail format standards that are used
      one common is 'base64' something
      php has functions for this - to format mail body text for different standards

      Reading the manual was the first thing I did. But thanks anyway.

        Reading the manual was the first thing I did. But thanks anyway.

        But HOW do you read manual?

        This is a quote from the manual you say you have read:
        If your server doesn't have mb_send_mail() enabled but you want to use non-ascii (multi-byte) chars in an email's subject or name headers, you can use something like the following:

        <?php 
$charset = "iso-2202-jp"; // japanese 
$to = encode("japanese name 01", $charset) . " <to@email.com>"; 
$from = encode("japanese name 02", $charset) . " <from@email.com>"; 
$subject = encode("japanese text"); 
$message = "does not need to be encoded"; 
mail($to, $subject, $message, $from); 

function encode($in_str, $charset) { 
   $out_str = $in_str; 
   if ($out_str && $charset) { 

   // define start delimimter, end delimiter and spacer 
   $end = "?="; 
   $start = "=?" . $charset . "?B?"; 
   $spacer = $end . "\r\n " . $start; 

   // determine length of encoded text within chunks 
   // and ensure length is even 
   $length = 75 - strlen($start) - strlen($end); 
   $length = floor($length/2) * 2; 

   // encode the string and split it into chunks 
   // with spacers after each chunk 
   $out_str = base64_encode($out_str); 
   $out_str = chunk_split($out_str, $length, $spacer); 

   // remove trailing spacer and 
   // add start and end delimiters 
   $spacer = preg_quote($spacer); 
   $out_str = preg_replace("/" . $spacer . "$/", "", $out_str); 
   $out_str = $start . $out_str . $end; 
   } 
   return $out_str; 
} 
// for details on Message Header Extensions 
// for Non-ASCII Text see ... 
// [url]http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html[/url] 

?>

          Originally posted by halojoy
          But HOW do you read manual?

          This is a quote from the manual you say you have read:

          I've tried that. It doesn't work for UTF-8 encoded characters.

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