# Mailer flash php Polish characters problem

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**Created:** [April 1, 2009, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailer-flash-php-polish-characters-problem/285468 "2009-04-01T08:30:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![luquas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@luquas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/luquas)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailer-flash-php-polish-characters-problem/285468/1 "2009-04-01T08:30:49Z")

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Hi,  
I used “Flash-Based Email Form Using PHP” by Senocular and I have a problem with Polish characters (eg. ł, ą, ę, ć, ż, etc…). I can type them in the form but when I read the email after sending it to my mailbox the email appears with strange, unreadable marks.

I have tried putting some code in the email.php like:

$message .= “Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8” . "  
";  
or  
$message .= “Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2” . "  
“;  
or  
Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” /\>

but non of them worked.

I was reading on the Internet about converting / setting charset in Flash or php (eg. I System.useCodepage=true; iconv etc…) before sending the email but I do not know exactly how it should be done.

I was thinking also that this might be the server problem, which does not support Polish characters… it this possible?

Many thanks for your help!