I have a test html page with form which uses sendmail to send an email with data from the form. The input data includes characters like éêä £ €

The test page and the script it runs are on an Apache Linux web server.

if the html page has a character set of windows-1252 (default for Expression Web) those characters come out correctly in the email.

if the html page has character set of utf-8 those characters come out as garbled text (eg: £ €).

here is the sendmail code: 

unless (open(LOG_FILE, ">test_sendmail_log.txt")) {
    die "Couldn't open output file test_sendmail_log.txt\n";
}
print LOG_FILE "$body";

open (MERCHANT_MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t")
    or die "Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n";
print MERCHANT_MAIL "To: $send_addr\n";
print MERCHANT_MAIL "From: $from_addr\n";
print MERCHANT_MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
print MERCHANT_MAIL $body;
close (MERCHANT_MAIL);

close(LOG_FILE);

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A log file saved at the same time displays all characters correctly, whichever charset the html page has.

The html pages for which I am testing have charset=utf8 - how can I get sendmail to send such characters correctly?

Thank you

In reply to sendmail problem with utf-8 charset by combraxis

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