Re: Problem with Shift_JIS script encoding

Hi,

We've been round and round on this one too.

>I've been having a lot of trouble since upgrading over PHP4.3.1. Here's
>the problem:
>1. My scripts are all written in Shift_JIS
Meaning: 1) your scripts contain Japanese messages and you used Shift_JIS
in your text editor, and/or 2) these scripts display in the browser with
the charset explicitly set to Shift_JIS. Correct? OK.

>2. When I try to send mail using the mb_send_mail function, the messages
>written in
>my scripts in Shift_JIS are not properly encoded (it appears that PHP
>thinks that the
>code is in EUC and is making an incorrect conversion).
Do you really need to use EUC-JP for your application?
We're also using only Shift_JIS, and successfully.

More importantly I think, do you set mb_language?
Try this:
echo mb_language();
If it returns false, then set it to "Japanese" before sending your mail.

Here's a snippet from one of our scripts:
-----
mb_language("Japanese"); // <--- Add this before sending your mail.
mb_send_mail ("$email_address", "$form_subject", "$message_body", "From:
$form_from_name <$form_from_address>\nReply-To:
<$form_reply_to>\nErrors-To: <$errors_to>");
-----
The above variables contain both user input from an online form
(charset=Shift_JIS) as well as hard-coded values in the script (also in
Shift_JIS).

Give it a try and let us know.
HTH,
Lew

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