Posted by Tim Roberts on 12/04/05 03:42

kamlai@gmail.com wrote:

>I've written the following codes to include utf-8 wordings in both the
>subject and the content.
>
> $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n".
> "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n".
> "From: abc@abc.com";
>
> mail("target@abc.com", "<some utf-8 wordings as subject>",
>"<Another utf-8 wordings as content>", $headers);
>
>In the email received, the content is fine , however, the subject
>becomes 'strange characters'... How to solve this problem? Thanks a lot.

Check out RFC 2047. You can use something like:
Subject: =?utf-8?b?...base64-encoded-subject...?
or
Subject: =?utf-8?q?...quoted-printable-subject...?
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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