PHPMailer does not seem to auto-detect encodings, so if you wish to send mail in (for instance UTF-8) you need to tell PHPMailer this. Thankully that is very easy
$phpMailerObject->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
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PHPMailer send mail in UTF-8 encoding
Monday, July 4th, 2011PHP Send a mail as UTF-8
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011To send a mail from PHP encoded as UTF-8 is fairly easy to do by modifying the headers.
//Sender with special chars (UTF-8) encoded mail('mail@example.com', '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subjectString).'?=', $messageString, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n"); //Sender not UTF-8 encoded mail('mail@example.com', 'sender@mail.com', $messageString, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n");
HTML: UTF-8 encoding
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010To get a html page to display UTF-8 encoded text correctly (without setting a default charset) simply add the following to the head of the html page.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 at the top of the page (UTF-8 BOM)
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010These characters are the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.
This can be solved in two ways:
- Save the file without the BOM (some editors have this as an advanced option)
- Using vi:
:set nobomband then save the file
- Using vi:
- Make sure the right encoding is used to present the file (meta charset) / .htaccess or similar
Magento: Send åäö (and other international characters) to DIBS
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010If your store uses DIBS to manage payments, then the risk is that you have to worry about characters like åäö.
What we had to do is to make the form post the data as ISO-8859-1.
We did this by adding accept-charset=”iso-8859-1″ to the forms that we send to DIBS.
In “/app/design/frontend/default/blank/template/dibs/standard/redirect_paymentwindow.phtml”
56 | <form action="https://payment.architrade.com/paymentweb/start.action" method="post" name="dibs" id="dibs" accept-charset="iso-8859-1"> |
Once we had done this then the order details were shown correctly on the DIBS page (yes, the Chinese chars are just a test, I have no idea what it might say)
Apache2 changing charset using .htaccess
Thursday, January 14th, 2010If you do not wish to change character encoding for the entire server, but only one site (or only one directory) then this is possible to do using .htaccess.
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
If you only wish to do this to php or htm files (and not all files)
<FilesMatch "\.(htm|php)$"> AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 </FilesMatch>
If you wish to modify the mime-type as well as the encoding (on html files in this example)
AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html