rajeeshvr_80 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Hi All, I have a problem in my Arabic emails.They are not encoding properly.I am using the MIME version 1.0, function getheader_email($from_email){ $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n"; $headers .= "From: <".$from_email.">" . "\r\n"; return $headers; } function format_html($html){ return "<html><body><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" /><font style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px\">$html</font></body></html>"; } and I am using the mail() function for send the emails. mail(str_replace(' ','',$ownuser_email),$arrlangconst["OWN_DELVIDEO_MAILSUBJECT"],$this->format_html($strmessage),$this->getheader($video_user)); but the emails are showing like below, عزيزي عضو كليبسر الÙيديو الذي قمت بتØميله قد ØÙذ٠بواسطة المدير Title : wewewew وجد المدير ÙÙŠ هذا الÙيديو بأنه غير لائق (ملاءم) تØيات can anyone help me to solve this problem?......Its very urgent.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuhtzu Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Hey I think your problem is that UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding which mean 1 character can consist of more than 1 byte. This causes trouble because all "normal" functions treat 1 byte as 1 character. If you for example do substr('ABCDE',0,3) you will expect to get ABC because they are the first 3 characters and the first 3 bytes. But some languages like Arabic, Russian, Chinese and Japanese you need more characters and switch from singlebyte enconding to multibyteencoding. Imagine that a character now consists of an uppercase letter and a lowercase letter: Aa = 1 character. Now things start to go wrong: substr('AaBbCcDdEe',0,3) will return AaB which is 1.5 character and that screws up your encoding everything. So to solve your problem I recommend you start out by switching from mail() to mb_send_mail() which has the same syntax but supports multibyte encoding: http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-send-mail.php Here the multibyte functions section on PHP.net: http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php To see problem in "real life" have a look at this: http://wuhtzu.dk/test/mb_string_test_utf-8.php. I wrote it a few days ago when I was wondering about multibyte encoding my self. It shows a string and various functions (both multibyte and singlebyte functions) used on it. Hope this helps Wuhtzu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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