PHP Form - Email sent doesn't support characters

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  •  14-06-2021
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Question

I have a contact page (contact.php) that sends a form (formsend.php) when people fill in the contact details.

The contact.php has:

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html lang="pt-br">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8859-1">

Contact.php page is fine, displays my latin Portuguese characters fine (ã, é, etc).

But when I receive the email (when it uses formsend.php), I get the fields people signed up with messed up characters: João is João, etc.

On formsend.php I've tried adding:

$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

and

 header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

and

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html lang="pt-br">
    <head>
      <meta charset="ISO-8859-1">

as well. Nothing works.

It seems it's the formsend.php file that is failing here.

What can I do to ensure I receive properly formatted characters in the email with the user's info?

Was it helpful?

Solution

Yes you may try to switch utf-8: and also do not forget to change header info header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); but also you need to convert user inputed text to utf-8 in this case you will have no problem... I had the same problem with Armenian...

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