How to use special characters in recipients name when using PHP’s mail function
mb_encode_mimeheader should do it, just as shown in the example: mb_internal_encoding(‘UTF-8’); $name=”山本”; $email=”[email protected]”; $addr = mb_encode_mimeheader($name, ‘UTF-8’, ‘Q’) . ” <$email>”; For better compatibility you should set the header Mime-Version: 1.0 so all mail clients understand you’re using MIME encoding. The final email headers should look like this: To: =?UTF-8?Q?=E5=B0=81=E3=83=90=E3=83=BC?= <[email protected]> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E3=81=93=E3=82=93=E3=81=AB=E3=81=A1=E3=81=AF?= Mime-Version: 1.0 … Read more