[Phpwm] unicode email with Zend_Mail - what about the subject?

[David Goodwin]

Hi,

I've been trying to send a fully unicode 'compliant' email - where the
to/from/subject/body can all contain unicode characters.

I'm able to get the to/from/body encoded correctly, but the subject
seems to be awkward (i.e. refusing to encode correctly!)

So far, I've only tried using Zend_Mail, with something like the below : 

(the commented out line shows one attempt I had at fixing the subject,
but it didn't seem to work for Thunderbird)

(I suspect the repetitive utf-8's aren't needed aside from in the
constructor; I was grasping at straws...)

<?php
require_once('Zend/Mail.php');
$mail = new Zend_Mail('UTF-8');
$mail->setbodytext("hello world - here is some unicode stuff  汉语/漢語", 'utf-8', Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64);
//$mail->setSubject(mb_encode_mimeheader("See 汉语/漢語", 'UTF-8', 'P'));A
$mail->setSubject("See 汉语/");
$mail->setFrom('david at example.org', 'rah rah 汉语/漢語');
$mail->addTo('david at example.org', 'rah rah 汉语/漢語');
$mail->send();

Ideas/suggestions welcome. 

I'll try using a different library (e.g.
phpmailer) tomorrow, as perhaps it's a bug in Zend_Mail...


David.
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David Goodwin 

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