PHP Mail corrupts Umlaut characters or newlines

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.

 

If you are sending it as html then you need to use <br> for spaces, /n won't affect html