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POPHP Mail: special characters show different between Firefox and IE
 

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    <p>I have a problem when sending a form via email using the PHP Mail function. This is the code that I'm using:</p> <pre><code>$name = $_POST['name']; $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; $company = $_POST['company']; $email = $_POST['email']; $country = $_POST['country']; $phone = $_POST['phone']; $message = $_POST['message']); //This comes from the form $formcontent="Name: $name $last_name &lt;br&gt; Company: $company &lt;br&gt; Email: $email &lt;br&gt; Country: $country &lt;br&gt; Telephone: $phone &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Message: $message"; $mailheader = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $mailheader .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . "\r\n"; $mailheader .= 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n"; mail("my@email.com", "subject", $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!"); </code></pre> <p>This is a form that will be sending spanish and special characters, like ñ, accents, ç, etc...</p> <p>The problem is that, if I use it like this, it works fine in Firefox 3.6.3, but when using the form in Internet Explorer 8, the special characters that sends are all messed up (like ç instead of a ç). However, if I add <strong>utf8_encode</strong> to the variables in the <strong>$formcontent</strong>, then it works in IE, but it stops working in Firefox, showing stuff like η instead of ç.</p> <p>What can I do to make it work regardless of the browser? Any help would be much appreciated!</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p> <p>I've noticed that, if I echo the <strong>$formcontent</strong> variable before sending it with <strong>mail</strong>, if I'm using Firefox, the special characters are already messed-up. How can I avoid the browsers interfering with what's being sent? Please I'm totally clueless right now!!! I don't know what to change to have something working. Even if it's a dumbed down version, is there any alternative to have PHP Mail working with special characters in both browsers?</p>
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