UTF-8 Email with a UTF-8 URL

[klwong]

Hi all,

I have an email in utf-8 encoding. In the content of the email, I need
to send a link in which the filename is in utf-8 string...just like
this..

$content = "<a href=\"

http://xxxxxx/".$filename."\"">Link

to file</a>";

however, the link can not be correctly passsed and it automatically
encodes it into %xx format. How to solve the problem?

I've tried urlencode($filename) and urldecode($filename) but cannot fix
the problem... Need Help~Thx

 

[AdaHacker]

I recently had a similar problem with web pages, and it turned out that the problem was on the client side. The server wasn't sending the proper charset in the page header, so the client assumed the default charset, which was not UTF-8. For e-mail, I seem to recall that the default is US-ASCII, so I'm guessing it might be the same thing.

The first thing I'd try is adding a content-type charset header to the e-mail, assuming you don't already have one. Something like this at the top of the text might work:

$content = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$content .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$content .= "whatever body text";