Encoding Plain text email

Question

What encoding should I use if I want to send plain text emails? I'm using PHPMailer.

What setting do I need to change when sending email only as plain text, it's for a domain registration form.

Answer 1

Usually, you would select an encoding that matches that of your web site (or, more specifically, the form you're using to fill in the E-Mail with).

UTF-8 is certainly the encoding of choice, especially if you expect international customers.

If your form encoding and desired E-Mail encoding differ, you can convert the form data using iconv().