Hello, > Show us the full context of the code. The example you give us will work fine but that doesn't tell us what's really going on in your code. Here is the function I use to allow french special characters in the subject line (copied from german university tutorial http://www-cgi.uni-regensburg.de/~mim09509/PHP/list.phtml//www-cgi/home/mim09509/public_html/PHP/mail-quote.phtml?datei=%2Fwww-cgi%2Fhome%2Fmim09509%2Fpublic_html%2FPHP%2Fmail-quote.phtml%2Crfc822-syntax.txt): function quote_printable($text, $max=75){ /* $text ist ein String (mit neue Zeilen drin), $max ist die max. Zielenlaenge Ergebnis ist auch ein String, der nach rfc1521 als Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable verschluesselt ist.*/ $t = explode("\n", ($text=str_replace("\r", "", $text))); for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($t); $i++){ $t1 = ""; for ($j = 0; $j < strlen($t[$i]); $j++){ $c = ord($t[$i][$j]); if ( $c < 0x20 || $c > 0x7e || $c == ord("=")) $t1 .= sprintf("=%02X", $c); else $t1 .= chr($c); } while (strlen($t1) > $max+ 1){ $tt[] = substr($t1, 0, $max)."="; $t1 = substr($t1, $max); } $tt[] = $t1; } return join("\r\n", $tt); } function qp_header($text){ $quote = quote_printable($text, 255); if ($quote != $text) $quote = str_replace(" ", "_","=?ISO-8859-1?Q?" . $quote . "?="); return $quote; } So, before I enter: $sent = mail($destination, $subject, $content, $headers); I have: $subject = qp_header($subject); That's all... As said before, the e-mail is sent, but the mail() function returns false ! Thank you for your help LS -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php