ID:               20529
 User updated by:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Status:           Bogus
+Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         mbstring related
 Operating System: red hat Linux 6.2
 PHP Version:      4.3.0RC1
 New Comment:

Hi Again,
  I think actually this does, the problem is to do with the way the php
mail function handles the subject line, I don't think it is actually a
problem with the mb_string hence I originally posted to Mail. 

This bug was not apparent in any other version of php, of which we have
around 6 test servers and 5 main servers running. 

It has only started with the 4.3.0 versions. 

If you look closely you can will see that this also does not occur in
the message body of the email, just the header. It seams that the mail
function can no longer handle '�' character for some reason and
replaces it with a blank space. 

In fact I do have a way around this which I am actively using. 
mb_language ( "ja");
mb_send_mail( .... ) which does not seem to be affected by this bug.

I do not mind using mb_send_mail() from now on if this issue is not
going to be fixed but this is kinda annoying when you don't necessary
always want to write Japanese emails or use the base64 encoded subject
lines. 

Just to note, I know for a fact several big companies using php in
Japan are going to start experiencing this problem very soon if the
decide to upgrade to 4.3. As from what I have seen they all tend to use
the mail function which has worked very well up to now rather that the
mb_send_mail function.

Anyway thank for you help and time,
sorry that it could not be fixed,
thanks,
Malek

p.s. if after reading this you still think it not a bug please change
back to bogus, just put on open now to make sure you get this mail.


Previous Comments:
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[2002-12-20 02:14:06] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. 

Thank you for your interest in PHP.

You should prepare mime headers(subject line, etc.) to be encoded in
base64. Please ask this kind of question at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED](if you can understand Japanese) which you can
subscribe at the appropriate pages of http://www.php.net/ or
http://www.php.gr.jp/ respectively, before posting this kind of
question to the bug database.



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[2002-12-20 01:58:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi,
 Have just tried using the latest snapshot and the bug is still there,
no change,
thanks,
Malek

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[2002-12-19 22:57:50] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip



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[2002-11-20 19:19:33] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi Ya,
  Basically I am using
PHP 4.3.0RC1 (but I have also noticed the same thing with PHP 4.3.0PR2
)
on Red Hat Linux 6.2
with Sendmail 8.9.3

I am basically trying to send a mail in Japanese,
I first encode the text into JIS then simply send as normal,
i.e.
<?
$subjectja=mb_convert_encoding("�f�C���[���|�[�g","JIS","SJIS");    //
converts the SHIFT_JIS to JIS
echo mb_detect_encoding($subjectja);  // Check it is encoded properly
which it is
echo $subjectja;  // Check the Browser has no problems with the
encoding and works fine
mail($email,$subjectja,"test->".$subjectja,"Content-Type:
text/plain;charset=\"iso-2022-jp\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit");
// mail
?>
however the subject line does not appear correctly. On viewing the
email source I noticed that it is seemingly removing some characters
from the Subject line JIS,
Subject:  $B%G%$%j!<%l%]!<%H (B     <--- this is the resulting subject
line which is broken

test->$B%G%$%j!<%l%]!<%H(B    <--- this is the email body which works
fine

 $B%G%$%j!<%l%]!<%H (B
$B%G%$%j!<%l%]!<%H(B

slightly different. Also if you take out the "test->" on the body part
the body of the email will not to work.

p.s. there is no problems with 4.0,4.1 or 4.2

thanks,
Malek

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