PHPMailer character encoding issues
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.
$mail -> CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mail = new PHPMailer();
line $mail -> CharSet = "UTF-8";
must be after $mail = new PHPMailer();
try this
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";
I work myself this way
$mail->FromName = utf8_decode($_POST['name']);
http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php