Re: PHP mail() turns text with special characters into attachments

On 2022-08-31 14:53, Arno Welzel wrote:
> Jeroen Belleman, 2022-08-31 13:56:
>
>> I use the PHP mail() function to send emails to a special interest group.
>> Some of these mails are in English, no problems, and some of them are in
>> French. For the latter, the message body text gets turned into an
>> attachment, and the mail body remains empty. Apparently, it's the
>> presence of accented characters that triggers this.
>
> Why an attachement?[...]

I realize my wording was ambiguous. I *don't* want the French text
to become an attachment.

I haven't yet worked out the right sequence of incantations, but at
least you have given me a lead. Thanks.

> [...]
>
> Please update to at least PHP 7.4 or 8.0 and make sure your code works
> with that version (there are some breaking changes in PHP 7/8 compared
> to 5):

That's outside my jurisdiction.

Again, thanks.

Jeroen Belleman