Arabic character encoding problem in the mailling

Hi All,
hello,
i wanna put milling notification service in my site , so i got nice code , but it succeed with the English letters only , and with the other languages it delivered the message with encoding like �בַד והַ عزيزي عضو كليبسر

so here is my code and please help me to fix that , thanks .

<?

     $message  = "-- this is my message --\n";
     $message .= " welcome dude \n";
     $message  = "-- this is my message --\n";

     $recipient = "$email";
     $subject = " my subject here ! ";
     $from = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
     $headers = "From: $sitename ($sitelink) <mailer@$from>";
     $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";

    mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers);

?> 

PHP:

 

thanks fixed $headers .="Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"windows-1256\"";

 

Bad idea. Always use UTF8 for non-latin characters. It is the standard.

Peace,