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dan07
Hi, I want to create a form for a friend, he's from Greece, and his visitors send him messages with Greek characters, but they are not received well in the email client. Any solution?
Darin McGrew
A lot depends on where the problem is. Is the form set up to allow properly encoded Greek letters? Is the server-side program that processes the form doing the right thing? Is the mailing system doing the right thing? Is the recipient's email set up properly?

Can you narrow down where the corruption of the Greek letters occurs?
dan07
QUOTE(Darin McGrew @ Sep 22 2009, 09:34 PM) *

A lot depends on where the problem is. Is the form set up to allow properly encoded Greek letters? Is the server-side program that processes the form doing the right thing? Is the mailing system doing the right thing? Is the recipient's email set up properly?

Can you narrow down where the corruption of the Greek letters occurs?


Thanks for your reply Darin. I don't know that much programming to narrow down such an issue. I search Google a little and found a remotely hosted form service, http://www.123contactform.com . I made my form using their form generator wizard and not Greek letters are displayed ok. biggrin.gif
Darin McGrew
Based on that site's use of ISO-8859-1, my guess is that it doesn't support characters that are not included in the Latin 1 character set.
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