Language coding?

[PatrickB]

Hi there - got NateMail up and running in a jiffy and am well pleased with it!
I am using it in a German environment and it seems not to be able to deal with special characters such as ß ü ä ö etc. It writes Straße as StraÃYe.... Is there a simple solution for this?
Many thanks
P

[Nate Baldwin]

Is the problem in the email message, or the confirmation page? I'm guessing the email message, in which case you might try using a different encoding for the outgoing email. In recent versions of NateMail.php, this code should be around line 601:

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$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0$le";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"$le";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit";


It might like utf-8 encoding better, so try changing those lines to:

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$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0$le";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"utf-8\"$le";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit";


...to use the utf-8 character set and 8 bit encoding. Any luck after that?

[PatrickB]

Yes, the problem was in the email message and your solution was what I figured, but didn't know where to find or implement it!
Many thanks for your prompt solution!
Patrick

[kustat]

Hi Nate,

Firstly, thanks a lot for the script. It works perfectly!

But I seem to have the same problem as Patrick. My contact form should include text in Russian, but I get just symbols. I tried the solution you offered to Patrick. But it still does not work. Do you have any other solution?

Thanks a lot
Tanja