How to send international emails?

[eluser]Benedikt[/eluser]
Hi,

Following problem:

I have my data from registred users written into a database in utf-8 format. Fine so far.

Now, after registration (international users) I want to send a confirmation mail. Now I face a few problems which I ask you for hints how to solve.

1) The hardcoded standard-reply is not utf-8 even I set utf-8 in email-config. If I use utf8_encode() its converted and shown correctly, but the database-data is wrong if I apply this function.

2) I want to put the content of the reply outside of my mailing-helper. An include fails. You think I should write the text to a database and solve utf-8 this way and hv shorter code?

Thanks for hints.