UTF8 / Unicoding Body of PHP PEAR Email

Further to the previous article I wrote about unicoding an email subject in PHP, I was getting issues with the body not UTF8 encoding correctly either. When I used the Mail_mime object (as I was sending attachements), the standard Content-Type of text/html; charset=utf-8 in the headers was not enough.

I hunted around and came across a comment posted on the PEAR manual site. So courtesy of fredrik@krafftit.se I modded my code as follows and all worked well :)

$mimeParams = array(
 "text_encoding" => "8bit",
 "text_charset" => "UTF-8",
 "html_charset" => "UTF-8",
 "head_charset" => "UTF-8"
);

$body = $mime->get($mimeParams);