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    copied!<p><strong>What could be causing this encoding problem? Am I encoding the header information correctly or could this be caused somewhere else?</strong></p> <p>I found a similar problem here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4389676/php-email-header-subject-encoding-problem">Email from PHP has broken Subject header encoding</a> but from what I'm reading I think I'm doing this right.</p> <p>Basically sometimes our clients send emails written in french. It works but every once in a while we get some encoding issues and I'm wondering if I did the encoding wrong (I can't figure out).</p> <pre><code>$from = '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($email['from_name']).'?= &lt;'.$email['from_email'].'&gt;'; $to = '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($email['to_name']).'?= &lt;'.$email['to_email'].'&gt;'; $get_param = array( 'Content-Type' =&gt; 'text/plain;charset=utf-8', 'Content-Transfer-Encoding' =&gt; '8bit'); </code></pre> <p>The code above is how I encode my header information and below is the sending:</p> <pre><code>$msg = $message_mime-&gt;get($get_param); $headers = array ( 'From' =&gt; $from, 'To' =&gt; $to, 'Reply-To' =&gt; $from, 'Subject' =&gt; utf8_decode($subject)); $headers = $message_mime-&gt;headers($headers); $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' =&gt; $smtp_settings['host'], 'auth' =&gt; true, 'username' =&gt; $smtp_settings['username'], 'password' =&gt; $smtp_settings['password'])); $mail = $smtp-&gt;send($to, $headers, $msg); </code></pre> <p>The problem is that the email they received was from:</p> <pre><code>Clientnamé de l'Ontario[=?UTF-8B?QXNzZW1ib(...)=?=] </code></pre> <p>Thanks for any help :)</p> <p>Edit: The client's name basically uses the same characters as above. What I mean is that the email was supposed to be from "Clientnamé de l'Ontario"</p>
 

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