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 PH         


        

Answer 1

When non of the above works, and still mails looks like ª הודפסה ×•× ×©×œ:

$mail->addCustomHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain;charset=utf-8');
$mail->Subject = '=?UTF-8?B?' . base64_encode($subject) . '?=';;

Answer 2

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 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

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 5

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 6

$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";