Using an e-mail form, danish characters are not reproduced [Archive]

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SPOKMIK

04-06-2008, 12:55 PM

Hello.

I have constructed a page with form fields. These fields are connected to a php-page, sending an e-mail with the information given in the form fields. The mail arrives, but the danish letters æ (æ) ø (ø) and å (å) turns up as different, strange characters.
I have tried to change the specific letter to the code (trying first æ then æ) without success - I thought it would suffice incerting the actual code, but it doesn't.
I use DreamWeaver CS3, if this information helps.

Thanks for any help.
Kim

Nile

04-07-2008, 11:36 AM

Well, its most likely because the way your header in your email is set, can you please share your code so we can help you?

SPOKMIK

04-07-2008, 02:43 PM

Hello Nile.

Here comes the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Mailform</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php
print " Kære $_POST[name_your]";
print " Din anbefaling er sendt til $_POST[name_friend]. ";
print "Tak fordi du har ønsket at anbefale os. ";
print "Med venlig hilsen Life & Body Balance";

$msg = "\nKære $_POST[name_friend]";
$msg .= "\n\n På $_POST[name_your]'s foranledning inviterer vi dig til at besøge vor side - måske er vort koncept lige det du søger......\n\n";
$msg .= "<www.lifebodybalance.dk>";
$msg .= "\n\n Med venlig hilsen \n Life & Body Balance";

$recipient = "$_POST[mail_friend]";
$subject = "En ven anbefaler dig denne side";

mail($recipient, $subject, $msg);
?>

</body>

Nile

04-08-2008, 01:04 AM

I suggest you looking at this:
http://us2.php.net/mb_send_mail#pagefooter

You could send Thai, Chinese, and Danish characters in the same message.

SPOKMIK

04-10-2008, 05:56 PM

I have now found the answer. For everybody's information the solution is:

change
from: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
to: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

thanks to everyone for the help.