That worked "better". Now I at least am getting something that looks like the same it looks in MySQL database table. However, in the email client (outlook, gmail, hotmail) it is being showed like this: Document name: ´¡¿Ë Document summary: ´¡Ë¿ /Peter -----Original Message----- From: Barry [mailto:barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:34 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Sending UTF-8 mail with mail() Peter Lauri schrieb: > How can I send UTF-8 mails with the mail() function. Right now I am doing: > > mail('theemail@xxxxxxxxxx', 'Subject', 'Message', > "From: The Sender <sender@xxxxxxxxxx> \n" . > "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 \n" . > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n") > > The message is being sent, but the UTF-8 specific characters are not being > presented. Is there any fix on this? > > The messages etc are coming from a form. Is it possible to set the charset > for the form? > > /Peter $bodytext = utf8_encode($bodytext); -- Smileys rule (cX.x)C --o(^_^o) Dance for me! ^(^_^)o (o^_^)o o(^_^)^ o(^_^o) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php