# Flash-based email form using PHP (trouble sending chinese)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-based-email-form-using-php-trouble-sending-chinese/287423>\
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**Created:** [April 30, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-based-email-form-using-php-trouble-sending-chinese/287423 "2009-04-30T19:59:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![ka\_ka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@ka\_ka](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ka_ka)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-based-email-form-using-php-trouble-sending-chinese/287423/1 "2009-04-30T19:59:05Z")

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I am new to PHP so I followed the tutorial on this website to build a flash form using PHP. This works well with English, but doesn’t send chinese characters. It doesn’t display chinese in the microsoft outlook. How do I fix this matter?

One note is that I’m able to read the email in chinese using Mac Entourage when I choose the UTF-8 encoding, it even displays in hotmail. Problem right now is it doesn’t display in outlook on a PC.

Is it related to changing the default character set to UTF-8 in PHP? or enabling the mbstring for chinese support? Or simply just the outlook problem?

Would be great if anyone could direct me to the right direction. Thanks