Email cant suport greek chars

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killingbegin
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Email cant suport greek chars

Post by killingbegin »

Hello people.

I have an html form with some text fields.The user can write english or greek at the fields.
My php script is this

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<?php
 
 
$name = $_POST['name'];
$lname = $_POST['lname'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$tk = $_POST['tk'];
$area = $_POST['area'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$mobile = $_POST['mobile'];
$hours = $_POST['hours'];
$age = $_POST['age'];
$profession = $_POST['profession'];
$afm = $_POST['afm'];
$doi = $_POST['doi'];
 
$charset='UTF-8';
$subject = "?????? ????????? franchise.";
$encoded_subject="=?$charset?B?".base64_encode($subject)."?=\n";
$to="tasos_kakouris@hotmail.com";
 
$body = "
?????: $name \n
???????: $lname \n
";
 
$headers="From: ".$from."\n"
    . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$charset; format=flowed\n"
    . "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
    . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
    . "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
mail($to,$encoded_subject, $body,$headers);
 
 
?>
 
In my email the greek chars dosnt show of i think becouse of headers.But i cant find the solution.Can somone help me plz?
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Apollo
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Re: Email cant suport greek chars

Post by Apollo »

killingbegin wrote:$subject = "?????? ????????? franchise.";
Not sure how your editor works, but most likely this string is not UTF-8 encoded.

Try this instead:

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//the UTF-8 encoded representation of "?????? ????????? franchise."
$s = "\xCE\x91\xCE\xAF\xCF\x84\xCE\xB7\xCF\x83\xCE\xB7\x20\xCF\x85\xCF\x80\xCE\xBF\xCF\x86\xCE\xB7\xCF\x86\xCE\xAF\xCE\xBF\xCF\x85 franchise.";
 
$subject = "=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode($s)."?=";
mail( 'tasos_kakouris@hotmail.com', $subject, 'Hello!', 'From: Mom <yourmomma@hotmail.com>' );
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