Mail form doesn't send Russian/Cyrillic characters correctly?

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

When someone enters foreign characters (like Cyrillic text, and Japanese/Chinese probably gives the same problem) into the mail form, the email that arrives is all gibberish.

For example this should read "test message from *name*" in Russian.
ÃÂ¢ÃÂµÃ‘ÂÃ‘â€šÃÂ¾ÃÂ²ÃÂ¾ÃÂµ Ã‘ÂÃÂ¾ÃÂ¾ÃÂ±Ã‘â€°ÃÂµÃÂ½ÃÂ¸ÃÂµ ÃÂ¾Ã‘â€š ÃÅ¡ÃÂ¾Ã‘â‚¬ÃÂ¸ÃÂ½

I tried changing the header content-type thing from plain text to HTML but that didn't fix it.

The script I'm using is one I found online for free (eternal thanks to its author some of the lines are in Dutch)

Does anyone know how to let the form accept foreign characters? Thanks a lot in advance !!

<?
$your_email_address="theemail@whereitissentto.com";

if(empty($_GET) && empty($_POST)) {
die('Ongeldige actie');
}

// Emular register_globals on
if (!ini_get('register_globals')) {
$superglobales = array($_SERVER, $_ENV, $_FILES, $_COOKIE, $_POST, $_GET);
if (isset($_SESSION)) {
array_unshift($superglobales, $_SESSION);
}
foreach ($superglobales as $superglobal) {
extract($superglobal, EXTR_SKIP);
}
}

// to prevent header injection
if (eregi("r",$_POST['your_email_address']) || eregi("n",$_POST['your_email_address'])){
exit;
}

// kick anyone whoever tried to inject a header in the form
foreach( $_POST as $value ){
if( strpos($value,'Content-Type:') !== FALSE ){
exit;
}
}

$fields = array_keys($_POST);

function headfunction($url) {
header ("Location: $url");
}

// protect the variable $reserved_vars
if(isset($reserved_vars)) {
unset($reserved_vars);
}
$reserved_vars = array("css_file", "background_color", "background_image", "text_color", "link_color", "visited_link_color", "active_link_color", "font_name", "font_size", "highlight_color", "required_fields", "after_url", "check_email_address", "subject", "your_email_address", "env_report", "owner_name", "autoresponse", "response_subject", "response_mail", "dodosmail_header_file", "dodosmail_footer_file");

function include_dodosmail_header($dodosmail_header_file) {
global $reserved_vars;
foreach($reserved_vars as $reserved_var) {
global $$reserved_var;
}

if(is_file($dodosmail_header_file)) {
include_once($dodosmail_header_file);
return;
} else {
echo "<html>n";
echo "<head>n";
echo "<title>n";
echo "DodosMailn";
echo "</title>n";
if($css_file != "")
echo "<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="$css_file">n";
echo "</head>n";
echo "<body bgcolor="$background_color" background="$background_image" text="$text_color" link="$link_color" vlink="$visited_link_color" alink="$active_link_color">n";
echo "n";
}
}

function include_dodosmail_footer($dodosmail_footer_file) {
global $reserved_vars;
foreach($reserved_vars as $reserved_var) {
global $$reserved_var;
}
if(is_file($dodosmail_footer_file)) {
include_once($dodosmail_footer_file);
return;
} else {
echo "n</body>n</html>";
}
}

function dodosmail_error_handle($msg) {
global $highlight_color;
if(isset($highlight_color)) {
$extra_begin = "";
$extra_end = "";
} else {
$extra_begin = "";
$extra_end = "";
}

return $extra_begin.$msg.$extra_end;
}

// checking required fields
// in case they used comma and space, replace
if(strstr($required_fields, ", ")) {
$required_fields = str_replace(", ", ",", $required_fields);
} else {
$required_fields = $required_fields;
}
$required_fields = explode(",", $required_fields);

for($i = 0; $i < count($required_fields); $i++) {
$required_var_name = $required_fields[$i];
if(empty($$required_var_name)) {
include_dodosmail_header($dodosmail_header_file);
echo "Fout! - het verplichte veld ".dodosmail_error_handle($required_var_name)." is niet ingevuld.n";
echo " <a href="javascript:history.back(1)">Terug</a>n";
echo "n";
include_dodosmail_footer($dodosmail_footer_file);
exit;
}
}
if($check_email_address == "yes" && !empty($email)) {
if(!check_email($email)) {
include_dodosmail_header($dodosmail_header_file);
echo "Fout - het adres ".dodosmail_error_handle($email)." is niet geldig.n";
echo " <a href="javascript:history.back(1)">Terug</a>n";
echo "n";
include_dodosmail_footer($dodosmail_footer_file);
exit;
}
}

for($i = 0; $i < count($fields); $i++) {
$actual_var = $fields[$i];
if(in_array($actual_var, $reserved_vars)) {
$inside_mail = $inside_mail;
} else {
if(is_array($$actual_var)) {
$inside_mail.= "$actual_var: ";
foreach($$actual_var as $actual_val) {
$inside_mail.= "$actual_val ";
}
$inside_mail.= "n";
} else {
$actual_val = stripslashes($$actual_var);
$inside_mail.= "$actual_var: $actual_valn";
}
}
}

// getting other information from the form
$cname = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]);
$inside_mail.=
"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SENDER INFO:
IP: $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]
Computer Name: $cname
Browser Type: $_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT]
Page Referer: $_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3rn";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normalrn";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: DodosMail 2.0 http://regretless.com/scripts/rn";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "rn";
//$headers .= "Date: ".date("R")."rn";
$headers .= "From: $name <$email>rn";

$success = mail($your_email_address, $subject, $inside_mail, $headers);
if($success) {
if($autoresponse == "yes") {
$response_subject = stripslashes($response_subject);
$response_mail = stripslashes($response_mail);
mail($email, $response_subject, $response_mail, "From: $owner_name <$your_email_address>");
}
if($after_url == "") {
// out put send info
include_dodosmail_header($dodosmail_header_file);

echo "n";

echo "Het formulier is verzonden!<ul>";
for($i = 0; $i < count($fields); $i++) {
$actual_var = $fields[$i];
if(in_array($actual_var, $reserved_vars))
echo "";
else {
if(is_array($$actual_var)) {
echo "<li>$actual_var: ";
foreach($$actual_var as $actual_val) {
echo "$actual_val ";
}
echo "</li>n";
} else {
$actual_val = stripslashes($$actual_var);
echo "<li>$actual_var: $actual_val</li>n";
}
}
}
echo "</ul>n";
include_dodosmail_footer($dodosmail_footer_file);
exit;
} else {
headfunction($after_url);
}
} else {
include_dodosmail_header($dodosmail_header_file);
echo "Fout - Het formulier is tijdelijk niet bruikbaar, gebruik ".dodosmail_error_handle($your_email_address)." om contact op te nemen.n";
echo " <a href="javascript:history.back(1)">Terug</a>n";
echo "n";
include_dodosmail_footer($dodosmail_footer_file);
exit;
}

function check_email($email) {
if( (preg_match('/(@.*@)|(..)|(@.)|(.@)|(^.)/', $email)) ||
(preg_match('/^.+@([?)[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.([a-zA-Z]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})(]?)$/',$email)) ) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

?>

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