Title: wp-mail – encoding problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp-mail – encoding problem

 *  [yaakov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yaakov/)
 * (@yaakov)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-mail-encoding-problem/)
 * I am trying to post by email as indicated at
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email](http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email)
 * but I get aweful results when I post in non latin character
    I trying with russian
   and with hebrew, from a gmail account it post without doint the decoding at all:
   with subject topic : =?UTF-8?B?16PXkteT15zXmtej?=
 * and content :
    5PXktec15rXoyDXktec15PXmtej15Ig15zXktea15PXoyDXkteT15zXmteS16PXkwrXktec15PX
   mtej15zXkiDXkyDXktec15PXmtejINeS15PXnCDXktea16PXkyDXnNea15LXo9eTINea16PXktec 
   15MK15LXnNeT15rXo9eSINeT15rXo9ecINeS15zXmteT16Mg15LXnNeS15rXk9ejINec15LXk9ea 
   16PXkteT15zXmtej15LXnNeS15PXmgo
 * I tried to fix by making some change in wp-mail.php but it doesnt seem to work.
 * any idea how to fix it ?
 * thanks

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 *  [daniel-heffernan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel-heffernan/)
 * (@daniel-heffernan)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-mail-encoding-problem/#post-950472)
 * I’m having the same trouble with it. The body of mine is also base-64 encoded
   UTF-8. I’m going to poke around wp-mail.php and see if I can find a header telling
   me whether or not I should run base64_decode() on the body.
 *  [daniel-heffernan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel-heffernan/)
 * (@daniel-heffernan)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-mail-encoding-problem/#post-950473)
 * After some investigation, this does not seem to be an issue when the subject/
   body begins with a latin character. When beginning with a “special” (Russian,
   Japanese, Greek, etc) character, it seems to fail.

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## Tags

 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [hebrew](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hebrew/)
 * [mail](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mail/)
 * [non-latin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/non-latin/)
 * [Russian](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/russian/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [daniel-heffernan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel-heffernan/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-mail-encoding-problem/#post-950473)
 * Status: not resolved

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