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I want to put UTF-8 characters in the from part of an email.
Every part of the message is UTF-8 and it's working correctly except the FROM part.
I'm using this:
//boundary
$div = "==Multipart_Boundary_x".md5(time())."x";
//headers
$head = "From: $name
".
"MIME-Version: 1.0
".
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
".
" boundary=\"$div\"";
$name has UTF-8 characters and I can display correctly it in the message body.
I have tried with "\xEF\xBB\xBF" .$name" and still it's not working.
What am I doing wrong?
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Don't reinvent the wheel, use some library:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.mail.html
there are others