Hi, and thanks for all the previous suggestions regarding email modules. Now it turned out that my ISP refuses to let me install *any* additional Perl module on the server, so I have to use sendmail.
This is mostly fine, since I only send short text messages, but it breaks down when it comes to 8-bit characters. The page the HTML form is included in is utf-8 encoded. But I set the form to accept iso-8859-1 form data like this: <form action="cgi-bin/mail_form.pl" method="post" accept-charset="iso-8859-1" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"> Now my script pipes the processed data to sendmail like this: open MAIL, "|$sendmail -oi -t" or die "Can't open pipe to $sendmail: $!\n"; print MAIL <<"EOF"; To: $recipient From: $name <$sender> Subject: Website-Nachricht jan-eden.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" $message EOF From my own Mac (running OS X), the special characters come out fine (όδφί), when setting the charset for the email message like above, but from a standard PC (Windows 98), I get "üâÀüâÀüâÀΓ" for a series of 8-bit characters. Is there anything I can do about this? How do I correctly encode 8-bit characters when I do not have access to a module? Thanks, Jan -- There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
