PHPMailer character encoding issues

Question

I try to use PHPMailer to send registration, activation. etc mail to users:

require("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail -> charSet = "UTF-8";
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();  
$mail->Host     = "smtp.mydomain.org";  
$mail->From     = "name@mydomain.org";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; 
$mail->Username ="username"; 
$mail->Password="passw"; 
//$mail->FromName = $header;
$mail->FromName = mb_convert_encoding($header, "UTF-8", "auto");
$mail->AddAddress($emladd);
$mail->AddAddress("mytest@gmail.com");
$mail->AddBCC('mytest2@mydomain.org', 'firstadd');
$mail->Subject  = $sub;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->WordWrap = 50;  
if(!$mail->Send()) {  
   echo 'Message was not sent.';  
   echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;  
}

The $message is contain latin characters. Unfortunately all webmail (gmail, webmail.mydomain.org, emailaddress.domain.xx) use different coding.

How can I force to use UTF-8 coding to show my mail exactly same on all mailbox?

I try to convert the mail header width mb_convert_encoding(), but with no luck.

Answer 1

If you are 100% sure $message contain ISO-8859-1 you can use utf8_encode as David says. Otherwise use mb_detect_encoding and mb_convert_encoding on $message.

Also take note that

$mail -> charSet = "UTF-8"; 

Should be replaced by:

$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

And placed after the instantiation of the class (after the new). The properties are case sensitive! See the PHPMailer doc fot the list & exact spelling.

Also the default encoding of PHPMailer is 8bit which can be problematic with UTF-8 data. To fix this you can do:

$mail->Encoding = 'base64';

Take note that 'quoted-printable' would probably work too in these cases (and maybe even 'binary'). For more details you can read RFC1341 - Content-Transfer-Encoding Header Field.

Answer 2

$mail -> CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mail = new PHPMailer();

line $mail -> CharSet = "UTF-8"; must be after $mail = new PHPMailer(); and with no spaces!

try this

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";

Answer 3

Sorry for being late on the party. Depending on your server configuration, You may be required to specify character strictly with lowercase letters utf-8, otherwise it will be ignored. Try this if you end up here searching for solutions and none of answers above helps:

$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";

should be replaced with:

$mail->CharSet = "utf-8";

Answer 4

I work myself this way

  $mail->FromName = utf8_decode($_POST['name']);

http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php

Answer 5

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mail->Encoding = "16bit";

Answer 6

I was getting ó in $mail->Subject /w PHPMailer.

So for me the complete solution is:

// Your Subject with tildes. Example.
$someSubjectWithTildes = 'Subscripción España';

$mailer->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mailer->Encoding = 'quoted-printable';
$mailer->Subject = html_entity_decode($someSubjectWithTildes);

Hope it helps.

Answer 7

If your message uses Latin1, you can use utf8_encode Works for me, anyways.

Answer 8

@ $mail -> charSet = "UTF-8";

---this line should be under

$mail = new PHPMailer(); line.

pff..

---

Yes, it is correct. You have to place it after the object instantiation.

Answer 9

The simplest way and will help you with is set CharSet to UTF-8

$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8"

Answer 10

To avoid problems of character encoding in sending emails using the class PHPMailer we can configure it to send it with UTF-8 character encoding using the "CharSet" parameter, as we can see in the following Php code:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->From = 'midireccion@email.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mi nombre';
$mail->AddAddress('emaildestino@email.com');
$mail->Subject = 'Prueba';
$mail->Body = '';
$mail->IsHTML(true);


// Active condition utf-8
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';


// Send mail
$mail->Send();

Answer 11

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail -> CharSet = "UTF-8";

Answer 12

$mail -> charSet = "UTF-8"; ---this line should be under $mail = new PHPMailer(); line.

pff..