emails with funny characters =e9 =3d
 

Hello,

Occasionally one of customers sends emails to all of their customers. The most recent was a job offer. The messages did not display correctly on a number of machines. It appeared as follows:

Les personnes int=E9ress=E9es =E0 poser leur candidature ou =E0 obtenir de plus amples renseignements sur le poste, sont pri=E9es de communiquer

If you know french, or any western language with accents, you'll realize that =E0 should be à and =E9 should be é.

I believe the problem lies in the headers, there should probably be a header that says that the content encoding is.

I am using Pear::Mail to send the messages. I thought Pear would do this itself, anyone know what header needs to be modified/added/deleted so that these emails display correctly?

Do I pass it in the headers or is there a function in Pear to do this?

Thanks,

David

Upon closer inspection of the email I found that the charset is set.

So why would so many clients display the wrong information?

--=_e2b8a00f81d023c6dac04e7a3c50ef38
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I also tried using htmlentities, but I guess email clients don't like é and others. It was a lot worse like that.

This is what the subject header looks like if I use German unlauts in Mozilla Thunderbird. Note that the encoding is specified in the header itself, maybe your headers should look similar:
(The actual subject I typed was: öäü)

My subject also contains a similiar message, except it uses ISO-8859-1, and the subject appears correctly. It's really just the body that is messed up.

David