strange characters for mail()

Guys,

Any idea, im recieving some wierd characters when i use mail() wherein the content has a german languages.

Thanks,

Mike

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It is because you have to send email headers with the content type.

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
//alternate text type is Content-type: text/plain charset=iso-8859-1
//alternate charset Content-type: text/plain charset=utf-8
mail("email@someaddress.com", "Subject", "Message", $headers);

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