PHPMailer Character ñ on recipient address

Question

I\'m getting the next error on phpmailer when trying to send an email to a recipient address containing the letter \"ñ\", e.g.:

Fatal error: Uncaught exce

Answer 1

It seems that those kind of chars aren't allowed to be part of the "local part" of the email address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Local_part.