PHP mail corrupts German characters or newlines 1

[POPDUM]

Hi,

I have to send email containing German characters (e.g. umlauts). I already had a script which worked with English characters, but it would mess up the German ones.

So, I decided to use encoding in the header, and encoded it to UTF-8 as text/html (using text/plain does not work). Now, the German characters appear OK, but the newlines get lost. I tried using \n and \r\n as newline characters, but it does not work.

Here is the code fragment which I am using:

$name = $_POST['sendername'];
$telefon = $_POST['telefon'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$typedcode = $_POST['typedcode'];
$body = "* Name:\n$name\n\n".
"* Email:\n$email\n\n".
"* Telefon:\n$telefon\n\n".
"* Anfrage:\n$message";

$result = 'ok';
mail("myname@gmx.net", "Kontaktformular", $body, "From: $email\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n" );

As I said above, I tried using \r\n too, but it does not work.

Any answers or suggestions are most welcome.

 

[jpadie]

use phpmailer.

set the charset through the CharSet property of the phpmailer object

 

[jpadie]

sorry, being a bit stupid and not reading your post properly.

you are sending HTML mail. not text based.

html does NOT USE \n and \r\n to render content. It uses block and inline elements. To create a line break use <br/> or better still, surround your paragraphs with a <div> or <p> tag set.

by contrast the SOURCE CODE of the message will be formatted as you expect, as the source formatting will honour the \n and \r characters.

 

[POPDUM]

Thank you very much jpadie; I didn't think of adding <br /> at all, but yes, because it is HTML, that was what was needed.