Forms Encoding

Snitz · 05-12-2009, 09:04 AM

Hello there,

I'm using the WP-Contact-Form on my wordpress blog and I'm having some encoding problems. My site is built using 2 languages (french and arabic), whenever someone sends us a message using french special characters, the email arrives to my inbox all messed up with.

For example: "è" becomes "& egrave ;" (without the spaces)

How can I fix that?

ksanjanadevi · 05-12-2009, 02:35 PM

I think you should have french and arabic language pack installed in ur system or ur email supports them, when they are not identified by the browser then the quotes/codes are displayed as HTML Entities

Apostropartheid · 05-12-2009, 04:26 PM

This is likely the provider stripping out HTML entities. Usually, é will be è. Your email provider is probably changing this to &egrave;, which is giving you your problem. Make sure the email isn't in plain text; hopefully that will solve it.

Snitz · 05-13-2009, 07:26 AM

How do I make sure the email isn't plain text?

abduraooft · 05-13-2009, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snitz

How do I make sure the email isn't plain text?

Check the examples at http://php.net/mail

Snitz · 05-13-2009, 10:35 AM

Well, I have set the content-type of the form to text/html after it was text/plain
And inside my blog I have set the encoding to UTF-8
but still whenever I send an email in french charsl; méssage becomes mA©ssage

Thos0000 · 05-25-2010, 09:11 AM

Hi

Did you find any solution to this problem ?

I'm having the same and changing text/plain to text/html doesn't work better ...