Chinese Characters PHPMailer

Question

I'm using PHPMailer to send email from PHP. My email body contains HTML format and Chinese characters.

Chinese Characters are not shown correctly, it's changed to strange characters. I take the characters from database. It's shown perfectly if I view through web browser.

What variable of PHPMailer I have to initialize to solve this?

Any helps would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

You probably use wrong encoding for HTML body. Some important properties are:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->MsgHTML($your_html_body);
$mail->CharSet="UTF-8"; // <-- Put right encoding here