Hi, I am trying to send a plain text e-mail in perl that has utf-8 characters in it. I don't have any problems with the characters, they are as expected so I know that the utf-8 string is ok, but I can't figure out how to signal the e-mail module so that it works properly with utf-8. If I use Mail::Sendmail, the program halts with the following error: Wide character in subroutine entry at C:/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Sendmail.pm line 237. Here is the test code I have written: 
use HTML::Entities;
use strict;

my $input = 'Не просто
+';
$input = decode_entities($input);

# Sendmail stuff
my %mail;
$mail{'Content-type'} = 'text/plain; charset="utf-8"';
$mail{smtp} = 'smtp.mycompany.com';
$mail{From} = 'server@mycompany.com';
$mail{To} = 'me@mycompany.com';
$mail{Subject} = 'Sendmail Test';
$mail{Message} = $input;

use Mail::Sendmail;
Mail::Sendmail::sendmail(%mail) || print STDERR $Mail::Sendmail::error
+;

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If I replace the sendmail code with Mail::Sender::Easy, I only get a warning, and the e-mail is fine, but I'd prefer not to have the warning: Wide character in print at C:/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Sender.pm line 1767, <GEN0> line 14. 
# Sender setup 
use Mail::Sender::Easy qw(email);
email({
    smtp => 'smtp.mycompany.com',
    from => 'server@mycompany.com',
    to => 'me@mycompany.com',
    subject => 'Sender Test',
    charset => 'utf-8',
    _text => $input,
}) || print STDERR "email() failed: $@";

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Any ideas how to get either module to work without an error or warning? Thanks, Lisa

In reply to Wide characters in e-mail by lghansen

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