utf-8 encoded mail() -> newlines?

[pastet89]

Hello!
I have a strange trouble. I use a simple script, sending email via the mail() function. I had it working properly, sending the message with the defined by "\n" new lines and encoded in ANSI/windows-1251. Today I changed the encoding to utf-8/utf-8 (coding of the file when being saved/value in the head meta tag for encoding in the begining of the html). A strange thing happened. The new lines was not working at all and I was recieving the whole messssage on one line! Then I tried replacing \n woth \r\n but there was no effect! The I read in one forum post on php.net to replace \r\n with chr(13) . chr(10) and there was no effect again!
Please, help! How to get that new lines working properly? 😕
here is the code:

$from = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$from .="Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$from .="Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$from .="From: Livescore-bg.net <[e-mail]>";
$subject = "=?UTF-8?B?" . base64_encode("&#1047;&#1072;&#1073;&#1088;&#1072;&#1074;&#1077;&#1085;&#1072; &#1087;&#1072;&#1088;&#1086;&#1083;&#1072; &#1074; Livescore-bg.net") . "?=";
        $message = "&#1042;&#1072;&#1096;&#1072;&#1090;&#1072; &#1087;&#1072;&#1088;&#1086;&#1083;&#1072; &#1079;&#1072; &#1076;&#1086;&#1089;&#1090;&#1098;&#1087; &#1074; Livescore-bg.net e:".chr(13) . chr(10)
		 . $row['password'] . chr(13) . chr(10).chr(13) . chr(10)."
		&#1055;&#1086;&#1079;&#1076;&#1088;&#1072;&#1074;&#1080;, ".chr(13) . chr(10)."
		Livescore-bg.net";

    mail($row['email'], $subject, $message, $from);

[dagon]

mail() is ok for the very basics, for what you want you should look in to htmlMimeMail5 or the pear class - Mail_Mime

[pastet89]

Hm, are you sure that there is no other simplier way? I can not believe that mail() cano not send new lines! At least it WAS sending when using the ANSI encoding...

[dagon]

like you said its not a new line issue its a language encoding issue, and mail() can set headers but i wouldn't trust them when you have easy to use classes like the ones i pointed out.

Both classes i pointed to are in fact easier to use than mail() not harder.

[pastet89]

Ok, thanks a lot, my friend 🙂

[NogDog]

You might also want to look at phpmailer.