email form encoding and MS outlook 2003

yannis

hi there,
I have the following email form that uses UTF8 but when Greek input is sent the MS outlook 2003 displays it as giberish.
I have tried everything and i still see giberish. Yahoo and Hotmail display it ok.
Am i doing sth wrong? IS this code missing something or is it an MS outlook problem?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7">
<title>contact us</title>

<?php
$sendTo ="name@mail.com";
$subject = "email from your website www.zzzzzzzz.com ";

$headers = "From: " . $POST["firstName"] ." ". $POST["lastname"] . "<" . $POST["email"] .">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $POST["email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $POST["email"];
$body= "INTEREST FROM: " . $POST["firstName"] ." ". $_POST["lastname"] . "\r\n" .

   "COMPANY: "             . $_POST["company"]                                            . "\r\n" .

   "ADDRESS: "             . $_POST["address"]                                            . "\r\n" .
   "POSTAL CODE: "         . $_POST["postal_code"]                                        . "\r\n" .
   "CITY/STATE: "          . $_POST["city"]                                               . "\r\n" .

   "TEL: "                 . $_POST["phone"]                                              . "\r\n" .
   "FAX: "                 . $_POST["fax"]                                                . "\r\n" .
   "EMAIL: "               . $_POST["email"]                                              . "\r\n" .
   "&#917;&#957;&#951;&#956;&#941;&#961;&#974;&#963;&#964;&#949; &#956;&#949; &#947;&#953;&#945; &#957;&#941;&#945; &#960;&#961;&#959;&#970;&#972;&#957;&#964;&#945;: "               . $_POST["radiobutton"]                                              . "\r\n" .


   "MESSAGE: "             . $_POST["message"]                                             . "\r\n\n" .
   "EMAIL: "     ."<" . $_POST["email"]                                                    .">\r\n";

if(mail($sendTo, $subject,$body))
{

?>
<?php echo " Το email σας έχει σταλεί επιτυχώς στήν εταιρία ΠΑΠΑΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ.\r\n" ?>
<?php echo " ΣΑΣ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ!\r\n" ?>
<?php echo " Το τμήμα εξυπηρέτησης μας θα επικοινωνήσει μαζί σας σύντομα!" ?>
<?php echo " Παρακαλούμε πατήστε το κουμπί 'ΠΙΣΩ' για να επιστρέψετε πίσω στην σελίδα μας."?>
<div align="center">


<INPUT onclick=history.back(1) type=button value=Back name=goBack>

 
<?php
}
else
echo "Failed to send the email \"$subject\"."

?>

</div>
</body>
</html>

NogDog

Maybe add a Content-Type header to the mail headers specifying the desired character set?

Richardwinter

There is no place to add the Content-Type header in Outlook 2003.

You better upgrade to a newer version of Outlook (it will work), or use another email client, such as Thunderbird.

Cheers,
Winter