How to send correct UTF-8 mail in PHP

Thanks alot!!

In the same way you can add UTF8 to sender name, receiver name, and subject, thanks!

This seems to work okay when the email arrives in my GMail inbox, but when it arrives in my Outlook all the special characters are completely stripped out.

Hi guys !
Im really new in php but I got a script that I want to work with utf-8.. Is there anybody who knows what I need to change in this code !? .. thanks and sorry for the noob question..

$contact_name = $_POST['name'];
$contact_company = $_POST['company'];
$contact_email = $_POST['email'];
$contact_country = $_POST['country'];
$contact_message = $_POST['message'];

if( $contact_name == true )
{
$sender = $contact_email;
$receiver = "info@domain.com";
$client_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$email_body = "Name: $contact_name \nEmail: $sender \n\nCompany: $contact_company \n\nMessage: \n\n$contact_message \n\nIP: $client_ip";
$email_body_auto_reply = "Dear $contact_name, \nWe will contact you within 24 hours, thanks. \n\nwww.domain.com";

$extra = "From: $sender\r\n" . "Reply-To: $sender \r\n";
$extra_auto_reply = "From: $receiver\r\n" . "Reply-To: $receiver \r\n";

mail( $sender, "Auto Reply from the KING", $email_body_auto_reply, $extra_auto_reply ); // auto reply mail to sender

if( mail( $receiver, "The KING", $email_body, $extra ) )
{
echo "success=yes";
}
else
{
echo "success=no";
}
}
?>

Thank you for the solution. It was very useful. My forum members were complaining about missing characters in the new reply notification emails.

Hi I tried your code but it doesn't show the utf8 code in the subject. Can you help. Thanks.

It worked great for sending sweedish characters, thanks a million!

How did you come up with this solution? It worked GREAT!

After 1.5 years from its posting it has served me well. Perfect soution for my Japanese Subject and From fields! Thank you so much!

Thanks!!

I've Googled several hours for solution for my (same) problem and your function helped.

Cheers from Croatia :)

Exactly a year later, I found this information extremely useful. Solved my problem with strange characters in the FROM portion. Thanks!

To use this function instead of standard PHP's 'mail', you can modify function like this:

function mail_utf8($to, $subject = '(No subject)', $message = '', $header = '') {
$header_ = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
$send_message=mail($to, '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=', $message, $header_ . $header);
if ($send_message) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

Then, in your main code you will be able to check if subroutine mail had sent the mail successfully.
Althogh, I'm not a pro in PHP, but it works for me ;)

Exactly a year later, I found this information extremely useful. Solved my problem with strange characters in the FROM portion. Thanks!

You need a trailing "?=" after the base64-encoded string.
"=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode($subject)."?="

Best regards.

Thank, nice piece of code,

But how do you encode the Headers "From:" field if it contains Unicode characters ?