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Emil Wallgren
Emil Wallgren
11,737 Points
Posted by Emil Wallgren
Emil Wallgren
11,737 Points

Some letters default

Hi!

My name is Emil Wallgren and I'm currently working on a web-site for a client. I've made a contact-form in php and it works and all. But since we're Swedish we use the letters å ä and ö. These letters get's transformed into weird boxes and other stuff when he get's the mail to his Gmail-address. All the other letters are fine.

What can I do to fix this?

Regards!

/Emil

1 Answer

Steve McKinney
Steve McKinney
29,274 Points
Steve McKinney
Steve McKinney
29,274 Points

The utf8_encode function may be what you're looking for.

Links that could help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19708097/php-mail-special-characters-utf8 http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php

Emil Wallgren
Emil Wallgren
11,737 Points
Emil Wallgren
Emil Wallgren
11,737 Points

I'll definetly check this out :-)