send UTF-8 mail

[anatak]

I try to send mail messages encoded in UTF-8

it used to work more or less. I received the message on my cellphone and when I manually select the encoding as UTF-8 the message was displayed correctly.

 

I made some changes but basically use the same code and now it does not work anymore.

 

when I use my old code it still works. I am wondering why the new code can not send the message in a readable format to my cellphone.

 

here is what I tested

send a mail using the old code with Japanese characters.

in a yahoo mail box after selecting view page -> encoding -> utf-8 the mail is displayed correctly

in a mozilla thunderbird mailbox the mail is automatically set to utf-8 encoding

on my cellphone I have to manually select utf-8 encoding and then the mail is displayed correctly

 

send a mail using the new code with Japanese characters

in a yahoo mail box after selecting view page -> encoding -> utf-8 the mail is displayed correctly

in a mozilla thunderbird mailbox the mail is automatically set to utf-8 encoding

on my cellphone after selecting utf-8 encoding the japanese characters are just left out.

 

there are no changes in the form from wich to send mail

 

the only changes are in the mailfunction I use

old function

function mailuser($arg1, $arg2, $arg3, $arg4)
{
$to = $arg1;
$subject = $arg2;
$body = $arg3;
$header = $arg4;

ini_set("SMTP", "mail.kyushuinfo.com"); //use for online version
ini_set("smtp_port", "25");
mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);
}

new function

function mailuser($to, $subject, $body, $header)
{
ini_set("SMTP", "mail.kyushuinfo.com"); //use for online version
ini_set("smtp_port", "25");
mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);
}

 

I don't see how that can affect the way the mail is send

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas what may be the problem ?

 

kind regards

anatak

[BenInBlack]

1. you download xpertmailer from this link: http://www.xpertmailer.com/

2. you install it

3. you include it

4. you set charset

 

$m = new MAIL;

$m->Html = array(
'content'  => '<b>text/html <i>message</i></b>', // required
'charset'  => 'utf-8', // optional
'encoding' => 'base64' // optional
);

 

5. you mail it ;-)

[anatak]

thank you

I will have a look at this.

I am still going to try to find why the code does not work while there are no changes

 

It is just something I would like to find out for myself.