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Urdu Language Support for sending email to hotmail and yahoo with phpmailer

I am using phpmailer to send my auto-generated text/mail to users. body of the mail contains Urdu (Unicode), which is shown by google perfectly, but hotmail and yahoo mail shows the mail as shown in the following snapshot:

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is this a bug or i am missing any Unicode supporting parameter for sending my emails-

Solution

  • You need to ensure that your code tells PHPMailer to use UTF-8:

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

    Note that the property name CharSet is case-sensitive, so ensure it matches exactly. You must also ensure that your content in also UTF-8 format.