send mail with iso-8859-1

[zoffmann]

Hi,

 

I would like to make a form which collects information from the visitors of the site,

then this information is send to my email.

 

everything works, but the messages are sent as UTF-8 and I would like to send as iso-8859-1

 

I have the following piece of code in my sendmail.php file:

 

$mailsent = mail ($to, $subject,  $message);

 

My question is:

how to format variable $message as iso-8859-1 ?

 

Thanks in advance

[Wuhtzu]

What you need is to send some "custom" headers with your message - do something like this:

 

 

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "the subject";
$message = "the message";

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . '\r\n';
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . '\r\n';
$headers .= 'From: TheSender <[email protected]>' . '\r\n';	

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

 

The header information 'From: ' is of course optional but it is nice to show who send the mail. The 'Content-type: ' is the piece of header information which tells what the content is, plain text / html and which charset/charencoding is used...

[zoffmann]

I have tried on your way but I can't receive mail at all.

 

I have also tried like this:

 

mail( $to, $subject, "\r\n--deadbeef-for-dinner\r\n" .  "Content-Type: text/plain; " . "charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n" . $message);

 

an I get the messages but they are not formated as  iso-8859-1 ???

 

 

And I didn't tell you I would like to send messages as plain text in iso-8859-1

[Wuhtzu]

Then just use text/plain instead

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

 

 

But of course the text doesn't get formatted as iso-8859-1 just because you make a header which says it is so... Lets say you write this script:

 

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Sending e-mails using php";
$message = "I'm trying to send a iso-8859-1 formatted/encoded e-mail but it just wont work";

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . '\r\n';
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . '\r\n';
$headers .= 'From: PHP Script <[email protected]>' . '\r\n';	

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

 

and then save it using UTF-8 the e-mail will of content will of course be formatted/encoded using UTF-8 and not iso-8859-1 as your header says. So you have to make sure that the text you are actually sending is formatted/encoded with iso-8859-1...

[zoffmann]

Thanks, I'll try your suggestion tomorrow.

 

I hope it works, thanks one more time.

 

[zoffmann]

I have two files:

 

the form.html (collecting information) is saved as UTF-8

and sendmail.php (sending information as email) is saved as UTF-8

 

If i don't use your piece of code

 

If I look in my "yahoo" mail account and change to UTF-8 in my browser then everything is all right.

 

If I look in my "webmaster mail" account: browser changes automatically to UTF-8 and letters are wrong anyway.

 

Now after some changes I have to send emails from the form to the "webmaster" account and I don't care which encoding to use only if it works in webmaster account:

 

What shall I do ? ???