Problem with special characters and cyrillic characters

[lauritonisson]

Hey.

I have a problem with a site I’m working on. I’ve added a contact form to the site but when I fill out a part of the form with cyrillic characters or special characters like (õ, ä , ü , ö, etc.), the mail that contactengine.php generates doesn’t show these characters. Instead it generates random gibberish symbols in the mail. For some reason this is not a problem with Gmail but with the other email service provider I need to send these contact emails.

Here’s my contactengine.php

$EmailFrom = "Rentgard";

$EmailTo = "[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]";

$Subject = "Rentgard broneering";



$datepickerID = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$datepickerID2 = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Company = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Register = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Toode = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Teenus = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Nimi = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$ID = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Telefon = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

$Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));



// validation

$validationOK=true;

if (!$validationOK) {

print "";

exit;

}



// prepare email body text

$Body = "";

$Body .= "datepickerID: ";

$Body .= $datepickerID;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "datepickerID2: ";

$Body .= $datepickerID2;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Firma_nimi:";

$Body .= $Company;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Äri_registri_nr:";

$Body .= $Register;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Toode: ";

$Body .= $Toode;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Teenus: ";

$Body .= $Teenus;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Nimi: ";

$Body .= $Nimi;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Isikukood: ";

$Body .= $ID;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Telefon: ";

$Body .= $Telefon;

$Body .= "n";

$Body .= "Email: ";

$Body .= $Email;

$Body .= "n";



// send email

$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");



// redirect to success page

// CHANGE THE URL BELOW TO YOUR "THANK YOU" PAGE

if ($success){

print "";

}

else{

print "";

}

?>

Here is my html

Rendiperioodi algus:









Rendiperioodi lõpp:









Firma nimi:









Firma äriregistri nr:









Toode:





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Generaator ECM 2800

Pump WB20

Lumefrees HS 622 ET

Lumefrees HS 760 ETS

Muruniiduk HRS 536 SDE

Muruniiduk HRX 476 HYA

Trimmer UMK 435

ATV TRX 680







Teenus:





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Lumefreesimine

Trimmerdamine

Käsiniitmine

ATV'ga niitmine















Ees- ja perekonnanimi:









Isikukood:









Telefoni nr:









Email:

If anyone could help me I would really appreciate it !

Lauri

[Billy]

Is it UTF-8, or UTF-16 or something? If it isn’t, try that.
Otherwise, try finding some PHP code that sets a certain range of ASCII characters.

[lauritonisson]

It’s UTF-8. I’ll try searching for some code.
Cheers.

[Billy]

UTF-8 usually works for me; I get é è à ÿ ü ö ï î ô û â á ø ß, and loads more.

[Billy]

otherwise use the ASCII values. For example
é = é = é

[lauritonisson]

but will that work for the cyrillic characters?

[Mottie]

I’m pretty sure that the ASCII values should work no matter the page setting.

[lauritonisson]

Since I’m fairly new to all this, where exactly do I enter these values? Html head? And what kind of syntax is neccessary to add a characters numerical or hex code?

[Billy]

I don’t think there’s any Cyrillic actually. Sorry. You’d have to change it from UTF-8 to whatever one has Cyrillic in.
To use the special characters; swap each one in the code for the special value.
This:
$Body .= “Äri_registri_nr:”;
to this:
$Body .= “Äri_registri_nr:”;

(I’ve had it not work with js, but I’m not sure about PHP)

[Mottie]

cyneWATCH provided a link to the ASCII table, basically just type in the characters inline like this: À and you should get this: À

You can use hex code as well, but it follows this format (the “x” is needed with a 4 digit value): À = À

Edit: The Cyrillic alphabet is included in UTF-8 format:

Й or Й = Й
ж or ж = ж

[lauritonisson]

Thanks guys, unfortunally it didn’t do the trick, the Ä from the contactengine still gets replaced by gibberish and the user input text which may contain special characters or cyrillic doesn’t work either.

[Billy]

What language does is the Ä from? There is a way I think to make these possible in PHP (telling the code to not accept HTML values, but this time telling it to change certain things?)

[lauritonisson]

It’s in Estonian.

[Billy]

So you need it then.Have you tried looking up how to use Estonian characters in PHP and HTML?

[Mottie]

Are you using the javascript escape function to convert the inputted text?

Also, I just set up this page with a list of HTML escape codes, look around 1024 for Russian Cyrillic codes. I didn’t see it specifically listing Estonian, but isn’t it the same alphabet? (sorry I’m a bit clueless).

Edit: Ä or Ä = Ä

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