Special Characters in Value String

[hpinson]

Hello. A problem has appeared in a form that I do not know how to resolve.

If I have a form field:

<input name="nominee_category" type="radio" value="EXCELLENCE IN CASE/QUALITY MANAGEMENT; MANAGED CARE">

The semicolan causes the email output of formmail to go crazy, wrapping all output onto one line; like this:

nominee_category: EXCELLENCE IN CASE/QUALITY MANAGEMENT; MANAGED CARE nominee_name: nominee_job_title: nominee_org: nominee_credentials: nominee_work_address: nominee_mailing_address: nominee_day_phone: nominee_resident: Yes nominated_by: nominated_by_org: nominated_by_address: nominated_by_day_phone: nominated_by_fax: nominated_by_email: Submit: Send

The same seems to happen if I use:

<input name="nominee_category" type="radio" value="EXCELLENCE IN CASE/QUALITY MANAGEMENT OR MANAGED CARE">

or...

<input name="nominee_category" type="radio" value="EXCELLENCE IN CASE/QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND MANAGED CARE">

This seems an escaping problem, but do not know how to resolve it. Any help would be appreciated.

I should say that I am using formmail 5.03, php 5.0.3. Using HTML encoding on the semicolon does not seem to help either.

[russellr]

Hi,

Your tests seem to indicate that the joining has nothing to do with the contents of the fields.

I guess you're not using a template (HTML or Plain).

So, I wonder what you have for BODY_LF?

[hpinson]

Ah-- brilliant.

BODY_LF is set to the default: define("BODY_LF","\r\n");

I changed it to: define("BODY_LF","\r\n\n");

Which both solved the problem, and made the output more readable as well, by placing a space between lines in the output mail.

Thanks!

[hpinson]

Spoke to soon. The above modification fixes the problem with special characters, but breaks email attachments-- attachments are converted to text for some reason from binary.

[russellr]

Hi,

Put BODY_LF back the way it was.

Now, use a different email client to view the emails you get.

Use Microsoft Outlook or a web-based email client.

I suspect you'll find that the lines don't run together.