Posted by Martin Jay on 06/23/06 14:25

In message <e7g0m2$rki$1@ss408.t-com.hr>, Dado <mario_zupan@inet.hr>
writes
>With next form I get mail to send, but in a mail I got wrong encoding for
>Croatian diacritical marks "ŠÐÈÆŽ".
>In a page properties I set Central European (windows) and a rest of page
>shows fine. What I need to change to get encoding correctly also in a mail
>which form send to me.
>
><CENTER>
><FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailto:someone@$nailmail.com"
>ENCTYPE="text/plain">

This method of sending a form uses the default email software on the
client's machine. Some may not have their email software configured to
send special characters such as the ones you mentioned.

This method of receiving information from a form is quite unreliable,
anyway. :(

You need to 'POST' the form to a scrip on YOUR server so that you can
deal with these special characters.

>p.s.
>this
><INPUT NAME="redirect" TYPE="hidden" VALUE="index.html">
>
>also doesn't work. If you know the reason I would like to answer me.

That is a hidden field included in the form. It can tell the script
that handles the form what page to redirect the web browser to.

But as you're not using a server side script to process form data this
field is ignored.
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