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Asked: 2026-05-22T02:33:13+00:00

I have a form where spanish can be submitted and using PHP, I send

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I have a form where spanish can be submitted and using PHP, I send an email with the data. Unfortunately, the accent marks get totally screwed up when they get emailed.

If I submit the following:

Testing Accent Marks
á
é
í
ó
ú
ñ

I end up with the following in the body of my email…

Testing Accent Marks á é à ó ú ñ

The code that is processing the email is simply placing the $_POST info directly into the body of the email. I assume I need to have htmlentities() or something but I have tried and nothing works…

I also will need to be placing the same data into a MySQL database and retrieving it later. What do I need to be aware of when I do that?

Thanks!
Drew

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have touched the fine subject of charsets. Try to create and convert everything to utf-8. Database, files, forms and the like. Look up some information on the internet about what header to use in the e-mail to make it utf-8. Also convert you e-mails from standard 7-bit to 8-bit with these headers.

    "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"

    For the database you need to set, in case of mysql, the collation.

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