Japanese (multi-byte) characters & email library

[eluser]座頭市[/eluser]
Yeah... like I said, it might work... ;-)

Okay... check the Content-Tranfer-Encoding of your received emails... are they 7bit or 8bit? It should be 7bit. CI seems to set the encoding by default to 8-bit (understandable as UTF-8 is the default), which might be causing the mojibake, so you'll have to hack the email core to set the encoding to 7bit.

It might be possible to use

Code:

$config['_encoding'] = '7bit';

$this->email->initialize($config);

but I've never tried it personally... I'm only dealing with Japanese and English speakers so I just hardcoded the 7bit into the header.