[SOLVED] Funny characters appear in email received <Â> or < Â Â >

[moh_sulaiman]

Funny characters appear in email received  <Â> or < Â Â > they appear where a tab charactor is used i think.

Need urgent help

[zq29]

So, you come to a PHP forum to ask about an e-mail you received?

[moh_sulaiman]

no actualy i have an email script when email recieved that contain these charctors they are basically  &nbs; which are shown as  which are  because when you view them in envoirment where they are not supported.what should i do with them so that i dont have this  

[effigy]

That's a NO-BREAK SPACE in UTF-8.

[moh_sulaiman]

thanks for the reply i just dont want user to see  when he view his mail

[effigy]

You need to make sure your encodings are in agreement. How is the data stored? Retrieved? Sent? Received? Are you sending encoding or character set information with the e-mail? Do you see the same if you send it to yourself?

[moh_sulaiman]

when i check it in db it is ok i mean a white space  but when the reciever checks his mail it is there also when i generated  sql dump file these charactors are there like :

To:</font>      abc@yahoo.com<br>\r\n

[moh_sulaiman]

and in same dump file :

CC:</FONT>     None<BR><FONT color=blue>Subject:</FONT> test

 

this  charactor do not apear when i edit row through phpmyadmin then it apears as white space

[Daniel0]

As effigy said, what charset do you use when storing the data in the database?

[moh_sulaiman]

thanks for reply .

for that i use longtext.

[effigy]

LONGTEXT is a data type, not an encoding. What database are you using?

[moh_sulaiman]

oohh usf-8 in db(mysql) and iso-8859-1 in page

[effigy]

By page do you mean e-mail? How about sending a Content-type header with the mail? See example 4, replacing iso-8859-1 with UTF-8.

[moh_sulaiman]

yes page mean email and you mean replace charset=iso-8859-1 by utf-8 will it work any other alternative because there are lot of them

[effigy]

Lots of what? Programs using redundant mailing code? Either instruct the e-mail of the character set/encoding, or convert the content to iso-8859-1.

[moh_sulaiman]

lots of iso-8859-1 it is system which provide support thourgh email

 

sample :

$headers = "From: ".ADMIN_NAME." < ".ADMIN_EMAIL." > \n";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$agentemail = $_POST['iu-'.TABLE_CRM_AGENT.'-email-1-3'];

$password = $_POST['iu-'.TABLE_CRM_AGENT.'-apassword-1-5'];

$fp=fopen("mail_format/agent_welcome_mail.txt","r");

$fcontent=fread($fp,filesize("mail_format/agent_welcome_mail.txt"));

fclose($fp);

$message=str_replace("{AGNAME}",$_POST['iu-'.TABLE_CRM_AGENT.'-ausername-1-5'],$fcontent);

 

$message=str_replace("{AGPASS}",$password,$message);

 

 

[effigy]

So you're not always pulling from a UTF-8 source? It's mixed?

[moh_sulaiman]

Yes in db it is utf-8 but when it come to display it is iso-8859-1 .will it be ok that i make all to utf-8 the unwanted charactor is bassically   which is displayed as  .

[effigy]

Did you try adding the Content-type header? If your database is in UTF-8, I would keep the data that way.

[moh_sulaiman]

u have them as well see title of thread