How to translate to ISO-8895-1 from UTF-8

krigbert · Dec 12, 2006

I have a mail form in flash that sends mails using a PHP file. The mails are to be in Norwegian, which means that there are three funny letters that need "special" encoding.

Unfortunately, using the form to send mails to Hotmail and several other places will have the mail turn up with yen-signs and what not in stead of the Æ, Å or Ø.

In other words, I need to have the PHP script change the encoding of the text it receives from the flash document (which is UTF-8) to ISO-8895-1 or whatever will work.

Or maybe there's some way to define encoding in the mail() function that makes sure the receiving mail program "gets it" and displays stuff correctly. I don't know.

My PHP now:

Code:

<?php
declare(encoding = 'ISO8895-1');
mail($toAd, $sub, $mesg, "From: $nam\nReply-To: $from\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

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AdaHacker · Dec 12, 2006

Take a look at the iconv extension.

krigbert · Dec 12, 2006

I don't have access to any important parts of the server, I'm afraid - is that necessary for me to solve this?

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jpadie · Dec 12, 2006

might this work:

http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php

krigbert · Dec 13, 2006

Thanks, but I've always been confused by how they list those things. This is what I have now, and it doesn't even send a mail:

Code:

<?php

utf8_decode ( $subject );
utf8_decode ( $message );

mail($toAd, $subj, $mesg, "from: $nam
Reply-to: $from 
X-Mailer: PHP/" .phpversion());
?>

http://en.fortelle.no,

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jpadie · Dec 13, 2006

try

Code:

<?php
$subj = utf8_decode ( $subject );
$mesg = utf8_decode ( $message );
mail($toAd, $subj, $mesg, "From: $from \r\nReply-to: $from \r\nX-Mailer: PHP/" .phpversion()."\r\n");
?>

i'd also recomment sending the mail as MIME with the right content header for the charset.

krigbert · Dec 14, 2006

okay, what I have now is:

Code:

<?php

$subjec =  $subject;

$messa = '
<html>
<body style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif; background-color:#FFFFFF; height: 100%; width: 100%;">
<p>';

$messa .= $message;
$messa .= '</p>
</body>
</html>
';


$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";

$headers .= "From: ";

$headers .= $navn;

$headers .= " <";

$headers .= $from;

$headers .= ">" . "\r\n";

mail($toAddy , $subjec, $messa, $headers);
?>

And it's working! Except the subject is still gibberish. Whenever I add the $subj = utf8_decode ( $subject ); the email won't send.

http://en.fortelle.no,

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jpadie · Dec 14, 2006

You might try adding the Subject as a mail header

Code:

Subject: $subjec \r\n

then pass an empty string to php's mail() subject argument.

in the php online manual there is a user contributed scriptlet for converting utf8 to turkish. this should be easily adaptable to a scandinavian language. the link for this script is

http://fr.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php#71288

additionally php ships with the function mb_convert_encoding

so you could also try

Code:

$subjec = mb_convert_encoding($subject,     "UTF-8","ISO-8859-1");

and then just using the mail() command normally.

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How to translate to ISO-8895-1 from UTF-8

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