Character encoding for French Accents

php email diacritics
denislexic picture denislexic · Apr 17, 2011 · Viewed 58.9k times · Source

I'm developing my first website for a French client and I'm having massive issues with accents being displayed as "?".After googling it for days, I thought I understood, but issues persists.

To simplify it, I'll explain just the email headers (the message contains french accents)

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

I've tried using charset UTF-8 and the iso-8859-1, but I still get this type of emails:

Merci pour votre intérêt pour les tee shirts.

Can any one help? I'm having these issues with mySql, HTML, PHP everywhere basically.

Thanks.

Answer

Artefacto picture Artefacto · Apr 17, 2011

If intérêt shows up as intérêt you likely (i.e. short of corruption due to double encoding) have UTF-8 encoded text being shown up as if it were ISO-8859-1.

Make sure the headers are correctly formed and present the content as being UTF-8 encoded.

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