php - Spanish Accent Marks in Form Submission -

i have form spanish can submitted , using php, send email data. unfortunately, accent marks totally screwed when emailed.

if submit following:

testing accent marks á é í ó ú ñ

i end following in body of email...

testing accent marks á é à ó ú ñ

the code processing email placing $_post info directly body of email. assume need have htmlentities() or have tried , nothing works...

i need placing same data mysql database , retrieving later. need aware of when that?

thanks! drew

you have touched fine subject of charsets. try create , convert utf-8. database, files, forms , like. information on internet header use in e-mail make utf-8. convert e-mails standard 7-bit 8-bit these headers.

"content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" "content-transfer-encoding: 8bit" 

for database need set, in case of mysql, collation.