Strange characters in PHP mail()

[ieaarva]

Hi!
This is my first posting here. I hope someone can offer some help with a problem I have:

I have a web page which submits a text to a php-script which uses the mail() function to send a mail. That's working just fine, with one exception: If I use the special Nordic characters in the mail text, it replaces them with some strange character combinations. I am really struggeling to figure out how to convert the text so it shows up right in the receiving mailbox.

Here is an example of a mail I have sent:
Navn : Iver Erling Ã…rva
Telefon : 90037541
Melding : This is a test of nordic special characters in php mail(). E.g. the letter Æ (or AE) and Ø (O with a slash). How do they look?

You see what I mean?

Thanks for any help!

Iver in Oslo

[TheProdigyGuy]

Hello Iver.
If i understand correctly it is UTF8 characters Yeah?

Then i think solution to specify additional headers properly:
In ex:

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$header= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . PHP_EOL;
$header.='Reply to: etc etc more stuff goes here' .PHP_EOL;


then:
@mail($to,$subject,$bodyofmail,$header);


After all this I think it should handle correctly that characters.

[ieaarva]

Thanks!

Now it works just fine.

I just cannot believe that I didn't try that. I have tried so many things including headers, but obviously not with characterset UTF-8.

Iver in Oslo