PHP Mail either corrupts umlaut characters or newlines

[POPDUM]

Hi,

 

I have to send email containing German characters (e.g. umlauts). I already had a script which worked with English characters, but it would mess up the German ones.

 

So, I decided to use encoding in the header, and encoded it to UTF-8 as text/html (using text/plain does not work). Now, the German characters appear OK, but the newlines get lost. I tried using \n and \r\n as newline characters, but it does not work.

 

Here is the code fragment which I am using:

 

    $name = $_POST['sendername'];

    $telefon = $_POST['telefon'];

    $message = $_POST['message'];

    $email = $_POST['email'];

    $typedcode = $_POST['typedcode'];

    $body = "* Name:\n$name\n\n".

      "* Email:\n$email\n\n".

      "* Telefon:\n$telefon\n\n".

                      "* Anfrage:\n$message";

 

        $result = 'ok';

        mail("myname@gmx.net", "Kontaktformular", $body, "From: $email\n" .

                "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n" );

 

As I said above, I tried using \r\n too, but it does not work.

 

Any answers or suggestions are most welcome.

 

 

[Daniel0]

It does work, but new lines are considered whitespace in HTML. You need to use the HTML linebreak tag <br />.