[RESOLVED] prob with accents in email

[VisionsOfCody]

Hi

when I send an email from my mail function all the accented characters get mashed :

"Téléphone" becomes "Téléphone"

I tried using

$message .= utf8_encode ('Téléphone '.$_POST['tel'])."\n\n";

and i got "Téléphone"

my page has a utf-8 encoding and my mail function looks like this:

$to      = '[e-mail]';
	//$to      = '';
	$subject = 'Un message de xxxxxx.com';
	$message = 'Un message envoyé par '.$_POST['nom']."\n\n";
	$message .= 'Téléphone '.$_POST['tel']."\n\n";
	if($_POST['message']!=""){
		$message .= stripslashes(wordwrap($_POST['message'], 70))."\n\n";
	}
	if($roomsVar!=""){
		$message .= "Je souhaite réserver : \n\n";
		$message .= $roomsVar."\n\n";
	}
	$headers = 'From: ' . $_POST['email'] . "\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

$sm = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

has anyone got any idea what i can do to encode the mail properly ?

thanks

[promeus]

HI there 🙂 You must use utf8_decode to convert the characters back to ISO-8859-1. Lemme know if that helps.

[VisionsOfCody]

hi

thanks for your reply

yes, utf8_decode works fine !

but I now have the problem that there's a lot of extra stuff in the email before the real message :

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

X-Priority: 1

Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:42:10 +0100 (CET)
X-Ovh-Remote: 213.186.36.178 (8.mail-out.ovh.net)
X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.29 (mx1.ovh.net)
X-Spam-Check: DONE|H 0.5/N
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000708-1, 29/01/2007), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

how would i get rid of that ?

the mail function looks like this :

	//$to      = '';
	$subject = 'Un message de masdegleyzes.com';
	$message = 'Un message envoyé par '.$_POST['nom']."\n\n";
	$message .= 'Téléphone '.$_POST['tel']."\n\n";
	if($_POST['message']!=""){
		$message .= stripslashes(wordwrap($_POST['message'], 70))."\n\n";
	}
	if($roomsVar!=""){
		$message .= "Je souhaite réserver : \n\n";
		$message .= $roomsVar."\n\n";
	}

$header = 'From: ' . $_POST['email'] . "\n";
$header.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header.= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header.= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";	

$sm =  @mail($to,utf8_decode($subject),utf8_decode($message),$header);

[promeus]

Glad you got your accents to work.

As for the additional header info in the email, is it a problem? When you send out an email you shouldn't see any of the header information, its just there for different kinds of mail programs to use, or maybe if you want to look at the header to see where the email really came from or something (probably other reasons too, that's just my analysis).

Actually, if you are sending your emails through a mail server that you don't control then that server is probably appending all this other header info, for example the anti-virus information.

Maybe I'm not understanding the question?

[VisionsOfCody]

well, it's just that the header information is being printed in the text of the email whereas before it wasn't

maybe i haven't got the header syntax quite right

[VisionsOfCody]

I just don't understand this

if I put "\r\n" at the end of the lines it gives me emails like this with the header stuff printed in the email itself :

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

X-Priority: 1

Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:56:20 +0100 (CET)
X-Ovh-Remote: 213.186.36.178 (8.mail-out.ovh.net)
X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.29 (mx1.ovh.net)
X-Spam-Check: DONE|H 0.5/N
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000708-1, 29/01/2007), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean


Un message envoyé par [e-mail]

Téléphone 387387 38 7138 7318 7 

 r qeruqerhe rhqr hq erhqerh 

Je souhaite réserver : 

Chambre : PERALTA
Du : 5
Au : 5
Nuitées : 5

but it I just put "\n" at the ends of the lines it DOESN'T print the header information but I lose all the line breaks and it sends the email like this :

Un message envoyé par [e-mail] Téléphone qeh tr qerh qerh qerh Je souhaite réserver : Chambre : DE SURGA Du : 3 Au : 3 Nuitées : 3

here's the php code that gives the second of the two results :

$to      = '[e-mail]';
	$subject = 'Un message de xxx.com';
	$message = 'Un message envoyé par '.$_POST['nom']."\n\n";
	$message .= 'Téléphone '.$_POST['tel']."\n\n";
	if($_POST['message']!=""){
		$message .= stripslashes(wordwrap($_POST['message'], 70))."\n\n";
	}
	if($roomsVar!=""){
		$message .= "Je souhaite réserver : \n\n";
		$message .= $roomsVar."\n\n";
	}	
	$header = 'From: ' . $_POST['email'] . "\n";
	$header .= "MIME-version: 1.0\n";
	$header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";	
	$header .= "X-Priority: 1\n";		
	$sm = mail($to,utf8_decode($subject),utf8_decode($message),$header);

has anyone got any idea how I can get round this problem ???????

thanks

[VisionsOfCody]

s'ok I found a way, hehe

I just removed the headers and it worked fine