special characters problem in email

Hi,

I am having a problem with characters like " é, å, ø " etc

I have textarea for message, users submit messages and when they use characters like above it does not show correctly in email.

any help?

thank you

 

Hi ,

Have you set encoding to UTF-8 in html where is textbox is . Also set UTF to your database , and Email client .

 

UTF-8 is your friend!

 

did

it worked in email but not in outlook..

 

Have you set outlooks encoding to UTF-8 as well?

 

Which version you are using?

Hey but the end user is getting the message in correct format right?

 

well if the end users is on outlook then not

and if he is on gmail etc then ok..

I am using outlook 2007

can I set it to utf-8 in outlook?

 

Try this http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6638_102-0.html?threadID=222292

 

Solution:

htmlentities($myText,ENT_NOQUOTES,"UTF-8");

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