Question

I’m using PHPMailer to send email from PHP. My email body contains HTML format and Chinese characters.

Chinese Characters are not shown correctly, it’s changed to strange characters. I take the characters from database. It’s shown perfectly if I view through web browser.

What variable of PHPMailer I have to initialize to solve this?

Any helps would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

You probably use wrong encoding for HTML body.
Some important properties are:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->MsgHTML($your_html_body);
$mail->CharSet="UTF-8"; // <-- Put right encoding here