PHP - ASCII special characters (without MySQL)

Question

I am doing this PHP page that have access to a Google account and than shows all emails. I've defined a header = UTF-8 and meta too, I used a lot of PHP function to convert the output to UTF but I keep getting strange icons instead of ASCII special characters. Such as ç, é or ã.

    header("Content-Type: text/html; charset: UTF-8");
    $message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,2);
    echo $message;

What should be the output:

çççç

What I get:

=E7=E7=E7=E7

user1233508 · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 09:50:32Z

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Use imap_qprint (see first comment on that page for an alternative solution).

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 9:50

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JTFerreira Over a year ago

I used the first comment 's solution an that did it, thanks a lot.

Claaker · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 09:54:03Z

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It seems to be a known issue, regarding the first comment on the imap_fetchbody PHP doc page.

Use imap_qprint or use the commenter solution :

<?php
function ReplaceImap($txt) {
  $carimap = array("=C3=A9", "=C3=A8", "=C3=AA", "=C3=AB", "=C3=A7", "=C3=A0", "=20", "=C3=80", "=C3=89");
  $carhtml = array("é", "è", "ê", "ë", "ç", "à", "&nbsp;", "À", "É");
  $txt = str_replace($carimap, $carhtml, $txt);

  return $txt;
}

$mbox = imap_open("{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX", "login", "pass");
$no = 5; // Mail to show (mail number)

$text = imap_fetchbody($mbox, $no, 1);
$text = imap_utf8($text);
$text = ReplaceImap($text);
$text = nl2br($text);

echo $text;
?>

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 9:54

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JTFerreira Over a year ago

By reading the comment below I used this: $message = preg_replace("/\=([A-F][A-F0-9])/","%$1",$message); $message = urldecode($message); $message = utf8_encode($message);

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