Arabic Issue with PHPMailer

Question

I am using PHPMailer and trying to send email with the Arabic text, It's sending the Empty Subject , I can see in my Inbox "(no subject)"

I am using following :

HTML code

<form action="mail.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="subject" />
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>

PHP Code (mail.php)

$subject = $_POST["subject"];
    $mailer = new PHPMailer();
            $mailer->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
            $mailer->IsSMTP();
            $mailer->SMTPDebug = 1;
            $mailer->SMTPAuth = true;



            // Prepare Message  
            $mailer->Subject = ($subject);
            $emails = 0;

Help will be appreciated :)

Actually! subject is coming from $_POST so, I think you should understand the code — Shahzab Asif, Mar 23 '13 at 22:20
What is your $_POST set as, in both the form and process? To add, I usually am better at helping when I have full code, but that's just me ;-) — Funk Forty Niner, Mar 23 '13 at 22:27
I am Sorry Fred , Same issue, it's working fine for the Message Body, but not for subject. It seems PHPMailer Issue... — Shahzab Asif, Mar 23 '13 at 23:06
Hm... that's a shame. I'll see what else I can find out for you. — Funk Forty Niner, Mar 23 '13 at 23:07
Ok, I can't find anything yet however and I have been criticized about this in the past, the infamous `BOM` (byte order mark), are you aware of the term? — Funk Forty Niner, Mar 23 '13 at 23:13
To add to my above recent comment: UTF-8 encoding can be saved either `with` or `without` the `BOM` which at many times, can cause problems for many and in so many ways, so it can't be left out of the equation. — Funk Forty Niner, Mar 23 '13 at 23:25
New findings: See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/447560/php-mail-encodes-subject-line and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2334935/how-do-i-send-emails-with-arabic-content-via-phps-mail-function and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4389676/php-email-header-subject-encoding-problem — Funk Forty Niner, Mar 23 '13 at 23:39

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 04 '15 at 21:13

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just add

$mailer->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

and its works

edited Oct 04 '15 at 21:13

Niki van Stein

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answered Oct 03 '15 at 15:37

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This is actually a valid answer, or at least it fixed the problem I faced (which is the same as the author of the question) – Florian Humblot Jan 27 '16 at 10:27

ewroman · Answer 2 · 2014-09-03T20:21:56.170

use this. its worked for me.

    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';       
    $mail->IsSMTP();                                   // send via SMTP
    $mail->Encoding     = "base64";
    $mail->Host     = ........

    ...

    $mail->Subject  =  '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=';

if you have htmlentities ($subject) change it to htmlspecialchars ($subject) htmlenitities breaks encoding.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 08 '16 at 06:18

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Try the following steps to address the problem correctly.

Make sure the page that's posting the subject is a UTF-8 encoded page.

1a. If the source isn't UTF-8, then
```
iconv("SOURCE_ENCODING","UTF-8",$subject);
```
Var Dump the subject before sending the mail.

Try to add a hard-coded subject in Arabic, e.g.:

$subject= "تجربة عنوان للرسالة";

edited Dec 08 '16 at 06:18

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answered Mar 23 '13 at 22:30

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Thanks, I tried all even hard coded... actually it seems error of PHPMailer, I tested it's printing Arabic on Page very good, but not in email :( – Shahzab Asif Mar 23 '13 at 22:33

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 23 '13 at 23:07

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$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$subject = "=?UTF-8?B?" . base64_encode($subject) . "?=";

answered Mar 23 '13 at 23:07

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 23 '13 at 22:25

Try the old way:

$to      = 'any@mail.com';
$subject = 'Hi!';
$message = 'Whats up?';
$headers = 'From: mail@of.you.com' . "\r\n" .
        'Reply-To: noreply@blabla.com' . "\r\n" .
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion()."\r\n";                         
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
//if you send an html page:
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 09 '23 at 18:30

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use this

ALTER DATABASE databasename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

and add $mailer->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

answered Jun 09 '23 at 18:30

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Arabic Issue with PHPMailer

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