Solution for Encoding From Header in utf-8

[pulp]

my site is utf-8 encoded and formmal is using an HTML templates which is also utf-8 encoded. everything was great except the From Header was not utf-8 encoded and names written in utf-8 encoded arabic characters would come up as garbled text in Outlook.

to fix this, and have the name in From Header utf-8 encoded, change this, starting around line 7666:

function MakeFromLine($s_email,$s_name)
{
    $s_line = "";
    if (!empty($s_email))
        $s_line .= $s_email." ";
    if (!empty($s_name))
        $s_line .= "(".$s_name.")";
    return ($s_line);
} 

to this:

function MakeFromLine($s_email,$s_name)
{
    $s_line = "";
    if (!empty($s_email))
        $s_line .= $s_email." ";
    if (!empty($s_name))
        $s_line .= "(=?utf-8?B?".base64_encode($s_name)."?=)";
    return ($s_line);
} 

this is based on formmail.php version 8.02 hope it helps someone.

and thanks again Russell for the truly awesome script.

[russellr]

Hi,

Thanks for the tip.

We'll try to get this into the standard code for the next release.

[russellr]

Hi,

Update on this....

I want to implement a generic solution for all headers.

It needs also to be tied to the Language Packs, so UTF-8 alone is probably not good enough.

It's on the TO DO list.

[pulp]

hi,

if you need any help testing, please let me know.

[Dudikowski]

hi,

if you need any help testing, please let me know.

This fix worked very well for me with FormMail 8.14. I upgraded to version 8.15 but it have many changes in this area. If you could have a look at this again it would be very much appreciated.

[russellr]

Hi,

We've now created a complete solution for international characters in email headers.

The problem is it's another 1000 lines of PHP code!

Because of the size, we're not that keen to add all that code into FormMail.

Instead, we'll add code to handle specific fields (From, Subject) and that will get into the next release of FormMail.

[darmin]

There's still a small bug left

If there is a space in the field the text is garbled.
For example in the fromline:
"Åke" becomes "Åke"
but
"Åke A" becomes "=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=85ke A?="

The subject line suffers from the same issue.

[Dudikowski]

I haven't found the time yet to upgrade so now I know I can wait for the next version. Thank you for letting us know.

[russellr]

Hi,

There's still a small bug left

If there is a space in the field the text is garbled.
For example in the fromline:
"Åke" becomes "Åke"
but
"Åke A" becomes "=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=85ke A?="

The subject line suffers from the same issue.

Thanks for the report, but I've tested this in 3 email clients, including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and KMail and it works fine.

The encoding above is correct, so if your email client isn't working with it, then you'll need to contact the supplier.

What email client are you using?

[Dudikowski]

I deleted my previous message. I need more testing before I know if I can make it work with UTF-8. The site I used for testing was converted back to iso-8859-1 and I forgot about it.