Hi - in order to see the Japanese Characters in the previous mail you might have to switch the "Character Encoding" of your Email reader to Unicode (UTF-8). In my case (I am using the "Evolution" mail program on Linux): View > Character Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8) Dietrich On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:06 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > I try to send messages written in Japanese (Kana/Kanji) with php. > > Everything works fine - only when the subject (or the name of the > sender) becomes longer, there seems to be something wrong with the > encoding: Neither my nor the mail reader of other (Japanese) friends > decodes the mime string. At the place of the Japanese Characters, > the mime string itself is displayed in the subject (to, reply to) > field. > > As this doesn't happen for other Japanese emails with even longer > subjects, I suppose I did something wrong ... but what? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php