Special Characters in E-Mail

[Magicality]

Heya,

special characters in e-mails are scrambled. For example those characters:

ä Ä ö Ö ü Ü ß (german Umlaut characters)

as well as french accents, are scrambled look very oddly in e-mails when e-cards are being sent.

This includes *BOTH*, the user-typed message as well as the e-mail header generated by Coppermine.

For example, a french e-card, will have subject like this:

"Une carte électronique pour vous..."

Instead of:

"Une carte électronique pour vous"

This looked really ugly, and makes it a lot less appealing to send e-cards with language settings other then english.

As a workaround, if you cannot fix this problem, it would be a lot better to just surpress the special characters and
change them to their non-accented equivalents, such as changing é to e...

Thanks.

[nickelas]

Greetings,
I am also having trouble with the swedish characters åäö when entered in an e-card. Is there a workaround for this?
thanks,
/Niklas

[Craig Walsh]

I have a slightly different problem with special characters and e-cards.

When e-cards are sent from our Coppermine gallery they seem to be fine.

I log e-cards to be sure (okay, it's after-the-fact) that nothing inappropriate is being sent.  I also send e-cards to our own customers, etc., so keep these as my record of having sent the message.

While punctuation characters are fine in the e-card itself, in the retained/logged copy the punctuation is strange.  For example, this is a snippet from the logged copy of an e-card I sent recently:

Here's the article from today's issue of The Independent. It's funny how we've

This isn't a big deal, and nobody sees this but me.  Any ideas how to fix this please?

[Joachim Müller]

Known issue, bug report still open and needs fixing.

[Craig Walsh]

Thanks for letting me know the status of this.  As I said in my posting, it's not a big problem -- I'm the only one who sees the funny characters.