characters being replaced when sending mail from a contact page

igeek · June 27 '09, 03:33 PM (#1)

Im using the php mail() function

Quote:

mail($send_email, $subject, "Forma de Contacto para Sitio de Web\n"
."Nombre Completo: ".$fullname."\n"
."Email: ".$email."\n"
."Teléfono: ".$phone."\n"
."Título: ".$title."\n"
."Empresa: ".$company."\n"
."Dirección: ".$address."\n"
."Ciudad: ".$city."\n"
."Estado o Provincia: ".$state."\n"
."Código Postal: ".$zip."\n"
."País: ".$country."\n"
."Método de contacto preferido: ".$contactmethod."\n"
."Favor de añadirme a su lista de email para recibir su boletín informativo: ".$signup."\n"
."Intereses, Preguntas o Comentarios: ".$message, $headers_clients);

Some of the characters are being replaced in the text feilds with english but should be in spanish when the form is sent
Is there a way to specify what language the mail() function uses?

**mlseim** · June 28 '09, 02:54 PM (#2)

This is an issue regarding utf-8

See this:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=force...fp=OzgK0dwM7rU

I know you can use utf-8 on websites and encoding foreign characters.
I'm not so sure about forcing it with emails. I would think a recipients email
client would default to utf-8, but maybe it doesn't?

An interesting topic.

Maybe other WDF members might have some better ideas on this?

imagn · June 28 '09, 07:48 PM (#3)

In your variable for headers you can set the language type - though I'm not 100% certain this will solve your problem.

// content language (en = English)
header('Content-language: en');

igeek · June 29 '09, 11:30 PM (#4)

Quote:

Originally Posted by imagn

In your variable for headers you can set the language type - though I'm not 100% certain this will solve your problem.

// content language (en = English)
header('Content-language: en');

thanks! Its worth a try!

igeek · June 29 '09, 11:31 PM (#5)

Here is a list of the characters being converted from spanish to english.. weird!

á = a

é = i

í = m

ó = s

ú = z

ñ = q

¡ = !

¿ = ?

ü = |

has anyone else run into this before? I think it is defaulting to utf-8.. please help!

ketanco · July 3 '09, 07:51 AM (#6)

i have a similar issue... my webhost godaddy says it is possible to have foreign language websites under their hosting but i need to modify htaccess file. i dont know how to do that....i tried modifying the database column types to that language but didnt work...

igeek · July 17 '09, 10:08 PM (#7)

I still have the same issue not luck correcting it..

the .htaccess file is usually in your root folder of the web server you may have to logon
to the server control panel to see it.

What did they say to change in the .htaccess file?

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characters being replaced when sending mail from a contact page