Hi

First I apologize for maybe posting this to the wrong category...
I have enjoyed using the module, until it came to my attention, that when sending email to recipients which were using hotmail, the non-us characters looked like bogus. I was wondering, whether it would be possible to add the option to convert characters in the emails to iso-8859-1 before sending them out. Preferably the entry in the database should be kept as utf-8.

If not possible, then please provide me with a work-around for this problem which hampers our use of the module significantly.

best regards and thanks, jarihj

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oadaeh commented
Status: Active » Fixed

After spending quite a bit of time researching and testing this issue, I've decided there's no possible way I can come up with a solution that will make everyone happy. So, what I'm going to try is to add an option to allow the administrator to specify an alternative character encoding, with the default (if none is specified) being UTF-8.

It's entirely possible with Microsoft's upgrade (?) to their Live system, this is a moot point, but I suspect that it won't hurt to have the option available.

Keep in mind that this will affect all recipients, not just certain ones. Also, keep in mind that other modules may come along and change that after this module sets it, as is the case with the SMTP Authentication Support module and/or the PHPMailer it uses.

What really needs to happen, is some bright individual needs to create a Character Encoding module that automatically handles this for all pages and e-mails on a site. Until that happens, however, I offer this compromise.

This has been done for HEAD, DRUPAL-6--1 and DRUPAL-5--2.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.