Abdelkader ELKALDI - Web Application Developer » hotmail utf-8 http://updel.com Just another Web Application Developer Mon, 23 May 2011 17:49:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 UTF-8 and live.com (hotmail) issue http://updel.com/php-mail-utf8/ http://updel.com/php-mail-utf8/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:54:17 +0000 UpDeL http://updel.com/?p=243 It is necessary to know first of all that: the problems with e-mails sent with UTF8 encoding  is not your, but that of the system of the addressee which does not manage correctly 8 bits,  as case of “Mail Subject” in “LIVE.com” (hotmail).

The solution is encoding the data of the message in MIME base64 :

Example :

mail($emailto,"=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode($subject)."?=",$message,$headers);
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