Re: Problems with mime encoding of Japanese Characters in Subject

(This is a reply to a problem in the archives, from March:
   http://marc.info/?l=php-i18n&m=120595161128203&w=2 )

As you obviously have the mb_string extension installed, have you tried
using mb_send_mail() instead of mail()? Then you shouldn't need to mess
around encoding your own mimeheaders.

<minor rant>
Later in the thread Tomas suggested using UTF-8 instead of ISO-2022-JP,
and getting Docomo to change. The problem is all those handsets in
existence. Not to mention all the other legacy email clients that don't
work well with UTF-8, but real people still use. Docomo could convert
from UTF-8 to ISO-2022-JP at the gateway of course, which apparently is
what softbank and kddi actually do, but Docomo deal with a lot of email
so care about the cost of the extra CPU cycles, and you're going to need
better motivation for them than "PHP cannot write proper MIME headers" I
suspect.
</minor rant>

Darren

P.S. If still no luck, and you want to try writing your own solution in
PHP, I seem to have a function called jis_loop() in mail.inc in my
open-source fclib ( http://dcook.org/software/fclib/ ) that does this.
It is 5 years since I touched that file, and probably 7-8 years since I
wrote that function, and just looking at it now I cannot make head nor
tail of it. So I'd regard that as a last resort :-)


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Darren Cook
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