Problems with umlaut ü ö

[pwired]

Hi

I have this part in a php form:

"Danke für Ihre Bestellung bei\n" .

//$msg2 with contents for the client

$msg2 = "=======================================\n" .
"Danke für Ihre Bestellung bei\n" .
"---------------------------------------\n" .
"Bitte überweisen Sie den\n" .
"\n" .

If the form is sent, both the webshop owner and the client recieve an email.

So far so good.

Only the ü in für and the ü in überweisen appear garbled (strange characters)

in the received email.

I tried setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.UTF-8"); in the php form

and I do not have setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.UTF-8"); in config.php

But that did not help.

[netcarver]

How is the email being sent? PHP's mail() function, PW's wiremail or a third party solution?

If it's PHP's mail() function are you sending a charset as part of your content-type header?

[Ole]

Did you set the charset...

To slow ... 

[pwired]

I use mail($form, "Ihre Bestellung", $msg2, "'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8'");

 

I already have some result with this part what I added "'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8'");

but now I receive 2 times an email on the clients email address

 

Guess I am not using the right format in mail

[pwired]

How do I add Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

correctly inside the following;

mail($form, "Ihre Bestellung", $msg2, "From: $form");

 

to make the ü appear corrctly in the received emails ?

[pwired]

Ok got it working with this:

mail($emailTo, "Bestellung", $msg1, $header = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n");

Now the ü appears correctly in the received emails.

Can anyone confirm that this is 100 % code tight ?

Edit: tried a few test orders and all looks well

in the received emails with ü and ö

[jan]

I thinks it's not exactly your question, but I also remember a lot of problems with php mail and encoding…

If every thing works in the body part of the mail, but you have issues with umlauts in the subject try:

$subject = '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=;

Good luck

[netcarver]

@pwired

Glad you got it working.

Can anyone confirm that this is 100 % code tight ?

Can't answer your question as I have no idea what "100 % code tight" means.

[pwired]

something is 100% water tight or code tight

just my own creation

Edit: php mail is quite fun. Always used email clients to send emails.

Never thought that I would send emails making my own headers and

email body html.

[netcarver]

Ah, OK. Well, that depends on where the $msg1 and $emailTo fields come from and if you trust them to never have anything malicious in them. If they can have something malicious (like a frontend user entering an email address, or anything that gets made part of $msg1) then, no, this is definitely not "code tight".

Always sanitize user input. Please look at PWs sanitizer class; it has methods specifically for making email addresses and general text more "code tight."

It's also not code tight as it totally ignores the return value of the mail() call - so you'll never know if the send failed. You can also simplify your example by getting rid of the assignment to $header in the call. Here's the last two points put together. I'll leave the sanitization research to you as it's important you find out about it.

$result = mail($emailTo, "Bestellung", $msg1, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n");

if (!$result) {
    // email send failed.
} else {
    // send succeeded
}

[pwired]

Thanks for those 2 points, malicous input and return value, and your code example.