Re: Bakemoji in From header line for Japanese e-mail sent with PHP mb_send_mail

Perhaps you haven't just set mbstring.language to "Japanese" in your
php.ini. Pass strings encoded in the same encoding as specified in
mbstring.internal_encoding to mb_send_mail(). Basically no additional
preparation should be needed.

HTH,
Moriyoshi

On 2004/10/19, at 22:01, WillaDee Young wrote:

> I'm trying send Japanese e-mail from a PHP web site. I am using
> mb_send_mail for this task. The back end is MySQL and the whole system
> is set up to use EUC-JP internally and SJIS for output. I have a form
> prepopulated with some suggested Japanese text, the user edits that,
> and the mail is sent.
>
> The form fields are (1) e-mail subject, (2) sender name, (3) sender
> e-mail address, and (4) message body. The sender name is concatenated
> with an angle-bracketed version of the sender e-mail address
> (separated by a hankaku space) and used as the e-mail From field. The
> subject is used as the subject and the message body is the message
> body.
>
> No problems with the subject and the message body. The sender (the
> From line) however is bakemoji. I tried using mb_convert_encoding and
> converting to ISO-2022-JP and got very weird results, almost all of
> the kanji went through okay, but the number of characters were
> increased and the extra characters were bakemoji.
>
> Shouldn't mb_send_mail just be taking care of everything, or do I need
> to be doing something to prepare text for it? Is there a problem with
> concatenating the kanji name and the ASCII email address? Is there any
> way the kanji name could be in a different encoding than the subject
> and message body, even though it comes from the same form? How can I
> troubleshoot this? If the From line is bakemoji, is there a risk that
> the Subject and message body will be bakemoji in some mail readers?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
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