Re: [PHP-I18N] How to get WIN-1255 encoded string

>From what I've seen, if someone mails me a correctly formatted message,
I get the title right, however something like a non-standard mail
clients does it, I get the =windows-1255 string you gave as the subject.

Do note: The standard name is ISO-8859-8-I. NOT windows-1255, which is a
nice micro$oft invention, but not something standard, which is why not
each and every mail client will support it.

I believe I did it "The Right Way" (TM) in my site by adding the
following header to the mail() function:
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-8-I"

You might want to try that... it works for me everywhere (including in
completely English mail clients under Linux)

Shimi

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:57, Marina Markus wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I am desperately looking for a solution of a problem that seems quite
> simple.
>  
> I need a PHP script to create an email message in a way that a subject line
> in Hebrew will be readable in all mail clients. Some mail clients cannot
> cope with Hebrew if they don't have character set explicitly denoted. 
>  
> Is there a possibility in PHP allowing to encode a string
> with WIN-1255 character set encoding? The result should look like:
>  
> =?windows-1255?B?Rlc6IOz26eHl+CDk8uXj6e0=?=
>  
> which the mail client then is able to decode back into Hebrew. 
>  
> If anyone has a solution for another character set, I suppose it can also
> help.
>  
> Will be grateful for any hint or idea.
> Marina Markus
> [email protected]
>  
> 

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