The ubiquitous "sendmail" handles UTF8 just fine. A very simple subroutine I have used to handle a specific form in Thai is presented below. (NOTE: It appears that perlmonks.org converts all UTF8 characters to HTML-entitites, even in <code></code> blocks, which is not the way I used it, so I have had to format my code in HTML style for proper readability.)

 

sub emailFormResults {
 
# Email the form results
 
open ( MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t" );
#open ( MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail", "-oi", "-t");
print MAIL "From: $sending_email_address\n";
print MAIL "To: $recipient_address\n";
print MAIL "BCC: $bcc_address\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $message_subject\n\n";
print MAIL <<END_OF_MESSAGE;
1. Personal Information / ข้อมูลส่วนตัว
* National ID / หมายเลขประจำตัว(ตามบัตรประจำตัวประชาชน): $national_id
* Title (นาย/นางสาว/นาง/ยศ): $title
* Full Name / ชื่อ-สกุล: $fullname
* Maiden Name / ชื่อ-สกุลเดิม(ถ้ามี): $maiden_name
* Birthday / วดป.เกิด: $birthday
* Current Address / ที่อยู่ปัจจุบัน บ้านเลขที่: $current_address
* Home Phone / หมายเลขโทรศัพท์บ้าน: $home_phone
* Cell Phone / มือถือ: $cell_phone
* Email: $email_address
* LINE Id: $line_id
* Facebook: $facebook
 
2. Occupational Information / ข้อมูลการประกอบอาชีพ ปัจจุบันประกอบอาชีพ: $occupation
* Position / ตำแหน่ง: $position
* Company / ชื่อ สถานที่ทำงาน: $company
* Salary / รายได้ต่อเดือน: $salary บาท
 
ฝากข้อความ: $comments
 
END_OF_MESSAGE
 
 
print MAIL "\n.\n";
close ( MAIL );
} # END SUB emailFormResults
 
Note that the form itself should be set to accept only UTF-8, and the HTML for the page should be properly set as well. I have used the following pieces successfully.

print <<HTML;
 
<html lang="th">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>ใบสมัครสมาชิก</title>
. . .
</head>
<body>
<form name="myform" id="myform" action="$0" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8">
 
HTML
 
 

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re: UTF-8 Email Form by Polyglot
in thread UTF-8 Email Form by oswulf

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