Problem whit character encoding

  • sadsmile

    (@sadsmile)


    18 years, 9 months ago

    First of all, I am from Sweden and my English is not the best in the word.

    Now to my question. I´m trying to set up a WordPress blog and I would really like to update this blog from my cellular phone. I mail my blog post from my phone to a special email I have set up for just this purpose. And then I use wordpress to check this email account and then update my blog. You know how it works, don’t you?

    But my problem is this, the blog subject really looks strange. It could look like this in my blog – “=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Test?=�.

    I have tried to change the character encoding from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 but the problem is the same.

    What can I do to get a subject that looks normal?

    I use WordPress 1.5.1.2.

    Anders

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  • fyse

    (@fyse)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    I’m suffering a similar problem. I can post without problem from a normal email account, but get gibberish when posting from my phone. My phone sends email encoded in UTF-8, while my email client sends in ISO-8859-1, so it would seem this is the problem. I think the solution would be to convert the string format inside the wp_mail script, which is what I’m gonna try and do. I’ll obviously post the solution, should I find one, but any help from someone more expert would be appreciated. (I’m a novice with PHP.)

    I suggest you send test emails from an account that works for posting, as well as your phone, and use you email client to view the message source. You should find a line like…

    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;

    … in both. Posting the type of encoding from your phone should make it easier for people to help.

    fyse

    (@fyse)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    My problem was solved when I found my phone was sending emails encoded in base64, and I suspect that is where things are going wrong for you too. I found I just had to edit the script to use the function ‘base64_decode’ on ‘body’, and on a substring of ‘subject’.

    Thread Starter sadsmile

    (@sadsmile)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the help. But I don’t really understand what and where I shall change the code. Can you please give me some more help?

    silvasonic

    (@silvasonic)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    i’m having the same problems. posting from either entourage (ms exchange client / osx) or my phone (treo 600 / using goodlink e-mail client) with extended characters will get me nothing but messed up text (e.g. Fran=?UTF-8?B?w6c=?=a imunizou animais dom=?UTF-8?B?w6k=?=sticos). any patches on this yet? i’m using version 2.01. tks / obrigado!

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