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I have a problem with utf-8 vs iso-8859-1 coding of swedish characters. THis is the situation:

I use the automated subscribe and confirm messages for people signing up for newsletters. In both of these, I have character coding problems (swedish characters misrepresented).

The html subscribe message is
<p>Du (eller någon annan) har anmält att du vill få AGSLOs nyhetsmail till denna mailadress. För att bekräfta detta och bli medlem av listan, svara på detta mail (du behöver inte skriva något, bara klicka på svara och skicka), eller <a href="{subscribe.url}">klicka här </a> >/p>

<p>Vill du inte abonnera så gör du ingenting, eller kontakta webmaster@agslo.se.</p>

<p>Webmaster
<br>AGSLO
</p>
In the recieved mail, the following appears in the soure code:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
I would expect a UTF-8 there, as my message seems to be saved by civimail as utf-8.....or??

I also use a footer and a header in most mailings, formatted in a similar way to the subscribe and confirm messages. And I use an automated opt-out message formatted that way.These show no character coding problems. And in the source code of the mail is

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"[code]
Why is it utf-8 in some and iso-8859-1 in others...??

Magnus Larsson
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Ok, great!

Meanwhile, is there any workaround? I have tried including a meta tag in the html-message, but it does not help. Any other way?

Magnus

Hi again!

Tried backporting by simply downloading the Subscribe.php and Confirm.php and then copy them to the correct folder.

However, it didn't work. After filling in my email in the Subscribe form, and clicking on the Subscribe button, I get a blank page instead of being redirected to the home page. And no mail sent out.

Do I need more files to make it work (just downloaded these two..), or is there something else that I need to check?


Magnus