How to send UTF-8 email?

php email utf-8

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Solution 1

You can add header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" to your message body.

$headers = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8";

If you use native mail() function $headers array will be the 4th parameter mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)

If you user PEAR Mail::factory() code will be:

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', $params);

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

Solution 2

If not HTML, then UTF-8 is not recommended. koi8-r and windows-1251 only without problems. So use html mail.

$headers['Content-Type']='text/html; charset=UTF-8';
$body='<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>ESP Notufy - ESP Сообщения</title></head><body>'.$text.'</body></html>';


$mail_object=& Mail::factory('smtp',
    array ('host' => $host,
        'auth' => true,
        'username' => $username,
        'password' => $password));
$mail_object->send($recipents, $headers, $body);
}

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deepWebMie

Updated on July 08, 2022

Comments

deepWebMie almost 2 years

When I send out the email, the email does not show characters other than english. It does show like below:

ä½™ç”Ÿä»ä»

May know actually what cause this? Even I tried to added Content-type and charset in the script, it still show the same.

I used Mail::Factory("mail");
deepWebMie over 12 years

here is my code $mail = Mail::factory("mail"); $to = "[email protected]"; $body = "好信"; $headers = array("Content-type =>"text/plain: charset=\"UTF-8","From" => "[email protected]","To" => "[email protected]","Subject" => "Test Send Chinese mail-好信"); $mail->send($to, $headers, $body) Is this correct? It does not show what I expect. It should display out chinese word in body,header or even subject.
ClearCrescendo almost 10 years

UTF-8 requires 8 bits. Most email tools still use: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit. The results will be dependent on the tools your content goes through but try adding an entry to the headers array of Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Grodriguez about 9 years

Which email tools stil use 7-bit transfer encoding ?
Vladimir Panteleev over 8 years

The 4th parameter to php mail() is a string, not an array!!
Mel_T over 8 years

Be sure to write charset=UTF-8 without quotes around UTF-8!
Stewart over 7 years

Only use text/html if you're sending an email in HTML format. For plain text emails, you want text/plain.
David42 over 7 years

I think you mean "to your message" rather than "to your message body".