Problems with ASP e-mail for non-Latin characters

nikosdra · July 14th, 2003, 05:57 AM

Hello all

I have a very big problem with my ASP pages sending e-mail to my users. I want them to have Greek characters in the message, but these characters com with the following appearance:

? a?t?Âµ? sa? ??a pa???? ?p??es??? ap? t? ???t?? t?? s??e??at?? t??

I have used many different components which my host supports (CDONTS, JMail, Persits ASPMail etc.) and they all give me the same bad result. This is not an encoding issue since I use HTML and specify: Mail.Charset = "Windows-1253" at the appropriate object of each component (1253 is the Greek Unicode support).

Can anybody help me on this?

Thanks in advance

Nick

kosla78 · July 14th, 2003, 06:47 AM

Have you tried placing a Response.CharSet=.. in the body of the mail;

Kostas Lagos

nikosdra · July 14th, 2003, 08:13 AM

I didn't know that there was a "Charset" property for the Response object. I knew only that of the Stream object.

How does it work, and what arguments does it accept? How should I use it in me problem?

Thanks

Nikos

kosla78 · July 15th, 2003, 12:41 AM

A typical example would be:
<%
Response.CharSet="windows-1253" or
Response.CharSet="iso-8859-7" (Greek also)
and after that your HTML code, like:
Response.Write "<table><tr><td>" ..

If you use HTML code not generated from ASP check your meta tags

Cheers
Kostas Lagos

nikosdra · July 15th, 2003, 02:48 AM

Thanks Kostas

I've just tried that. Not working too! I can't believe that! I have used many components (CDONTS, JMail, ASPEmail) and everything sends the same weird characters. And nobody can help in the entire Internet....

My code:
Beginning of the page:
<%@Language=VBScript codepage=1253%>
<!DOCTYPE Body PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD Body 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<Body>
<head>
    <title>Untitled</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/Body; charset=windows-1253">
</head>

Email component (JMail):
Dim JMail, Body
    Response.CharSet="windows-1253"
    Body = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"">" & vbCrLf _
        & "<html>" & vbCrLf _
        & "<head>" & vbCrLf _
        & "<title>Sample Message From ASP 101</title>" & vbCrLf _
        & "<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"">" & vbCrLf _
        & "</head>" & vbCrLf _
        & "<BODY bgColor='#ffffff'>"

Set JMail = Server.CreateObject ("JMail.SMTPMail")
'Message.Logging = true

if request.form("action") = "request" then
    JMail.ServerAddress = "mail.fostiras.gr"
    JMail.Sender = "registration@fostiras.gr"
    JMail.SenderName = "myTeam.gr - The Sports Community"
    JMail.Charset = "Windows-1253"
    JMail.ContentType = "text/html"
    JMail.Subject = "ÃÃ«Ã«Ã§ÃÃ©ÃªÃ"
    Body = Body & "ÃÃ«Ã«Ã§ÃÃ©ÃªÃ¡"
    Body = Body & "</body>" & vbCrLf _
        & "</html>" & vbCrLf
    JMail.Body = Body
    JMail.Execute

What could be wrong or missing?

kosla78 · July 15th, 2003, 03:55 AM

Have you tried the iso-8859-7 charset;;If not, please do. Do you open the mail from Outlook Express;; If yes, check the encoding for your HTML messages through its options. Have you checked its appearance on other people's mail; I believe its the system not your code. Try using CDONTS with the code Im sending below: It worksd fine for me :)

Code:

sessionMail="someone@somewhere.gr"
sessionFullName="Kwstas Lagos"
strMailTo="klag@intranet.gr"
mailSubject="Erwtisi"
strSubject="To thema einai.."
strBody="To keimeno einai dokimastiko"


strMessage="<html>"
strMessage=strMessage & "<head>"
strMessage=strMessage & "<style type='text/css'>"
strMessage=strMessage & "td {font-size:10pt; font-weight:none; padding-left:12px; text-align:left; }"
strMessage=strMessage & "td.info { background-color:#DEEAF2; }" 
strMessage=strMessage & "</style>"
strMessage=strMessage & "</head>"
strMessage=strMessage & "<body>"
strMessage=strMessage & "<table width=441 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=4>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<tr><td width=125 height=30 valign=top class='info'> <b>Estali apo:</b></td>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<td width=298 valign=top>" & sessionMail & "</td></tr>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<tr><td height=30 valign=top class='info'><b>Onomateponimo:</b></td>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<td valign=top>" & SessionFullName & "</td></tr>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<tr><td valign=top height=30 class='info'> <b>ÃÃÃ¬Ã¡:</b></td>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<td valign=top>" & strSubject & "</td></tr>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<tr><td height=30 valign=top class='info'> <b>Keimeno:</b></td>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "<td valign=top>" & strBody & "</td></tr>"
strMessage=strMessage &  "</table>"
strMessage=strMessage & "</body>"
strMessage=strMessage & "</html>"

Set objMail=Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

objMail.BodyFormat=0
objMail.MailFormat=0

objMail.Send sessionMail, strMailTo, mailSubject, strMessage
Set objMail=Nothing

Let me know of the result
Cheers
Kostas Lagos

nikosdra · July 15th, 2003, 08:18 AM

Kosta

You have received the outcome. The only Greek word doesn't work.

My Outlook Express does not have any problem at all, but in any case, I send my test mails to my Hotmail account, and receive messages through my browser.

Nikos

nikosdra · July 15th, 2003, 08:44 AM

Do you think that the problem could rely in the SMTP Server machine?

Nikos

andy18 · July 20th, 2004, 02:08 PM

Hello Guys,

Do you guys came out with the solution yet ? We have one user who is having the same case as this. The server has Multi language install at the Regional setting.

Please advise if anyone have a solution.

Thanks,

Andy

Regards,

Andy

lohcc · September 6th, 2004, 02:25 AM

i also facing the same problem while sending other language email by using CDONTS, anyone could help ???