RE: [PHP] SMTP and changing the character set
Todd, Is there a way to specify a character set in a SMTP email? I've found that SMTP is really, really very particular about how you apply spacing and carriage returns when passing a content type header from PHP. In the PHP mail() function, you want to add the content type header like so: ?php $contentType = \r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $contentType); ? In particular, take note of the space before \r\n. Without it, the content type header would not work. I had to do a lot of experimenting before I discovered this. You may have to some experimenting as well, as I'm not sure if all servers behave the same on this issue. Hope that helps. -- Yoroshiku! Dave G [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SMTP and changing the character set
Thank you both for the help. One more question: can SMPT use the Asian character set since it is 16 bits? Todd Dave G wrote: Todd, Is there a way to specify a character set in a SMTP email? I've found that SMTP is really, really very particular about how you apply spacing and carriage returns when passing a content type header from PHP. In the PHP mail() function, you want to add the content type header like so: ?php $contentType = \r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $contentType); ? In particular, take note of the space before \r\n. Without it, the content type header would not work. I had to do a lot of experimenting before I discovered this. You may have to some experimenting as well, as I'm not sure if all servers behave the same on this issue. Hope that helps. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] SMTP and changing the character set
SMTP, just like HTTP, uses the Content-Type header. So you can do something like this: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Just add that to the header argument of the mail function, if that's what you're using. Chris -Original Message- From: Todd Cary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kim Wagner; Brian Feifarek; Gus Scherer Subject: [PHP] SMTP and changing the character set Is there a way to specify a character set in a SMTP email? Todd -- 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
