How to send international emails?

[eluser]Benedikt[/eluser]
UTF8 in mysql is working fine.

I have a hardcoded mail-template in a mailing-helper I created. The text is kind of a template which is filled with data from the database.

Now I set the mail-encoding to utf-8 in the email.php in config-directory. The result is that the database-elements are encoded correctly, email is in utf-8 but the hardcoded text is not.

I tried to use the function utf8_encode() for the whole template but if you encode utf8-text to utf8 its also a mess.

So I guess I will put the template to the database and replace the values afterwards. This way it should be utf8.