french email subject lines not working

[eluser]Riley123[/eluser]
ok some progress.

I changed email config to $config['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';

then i convert this following string to htmlentities:

"Découvre ton style de décor pour une chance de gagner!"

that gives me:

Découvre ton style de décor pour une chance de gagner!

then

$pSubject = mb_convert_encoding("Découvre ton style de décor pour une chance de gagner!", 'iso-8859-1', 'HTML-ENTITIES');

This works for showing the proper characters in the email subject line, but the text is too long and won't send. If i have less than 50 characters it works. Is this a bug???

What is the limitation of characters in the email subject line? Is it really only 50???


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R