Encoding Problems

From	stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Encoding Problems
Date	2014-07-02 15:53 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<lp19to$r2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Hi,

Newbie at php; please bear with me.

I am trying to use a script which basically creates an xml feed for email
messages found in an IMAP account; one can then either subscribe to feed
via an rss reader/aggregator or use browser to read html page.

Here is the script: <http://linuxtrove.com/wp/?p=209>
(imap2rss.php)

My problem: almost all of the messages (emails) show garbled text, I
believe due to encoding problems.

Here is a picture of how it looks both using a browser like Firefox or an 
rss news feed reader.

<http://imagebin.org/314843>

The emails are legible using an email client but not via the xml and html
page created by php script.

This is what I first thought:
It looks like the emails are plain text but using utf-8 and when the feed
is created (and the html page); there is no recognition of the encoding
and it all gets garbled, etc.

Server (shared) is running PHP 5.2.17 on Apache/2.2.22.
PHP config --> default_charset:	iso-8859-1

I cannot change the config on the server since it is shared hosting but I
can certainly modify the script to hopefully fix this issue.

I have tried to insert in the script:
ini_set( 'default_charset', 'UTF-8' );
htmlentities( $string, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8" );
header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
but no joy.

I have also tried to add to .htaccess IndexOptions +Charset=UTF-8 No joy
there either.

I could be completely wrong about the utf-8 issue; and perhaps it has 
more something to do with decoding base64 in general.

This is what I now think is the problem, more specifically:
I have just tried a base64 online decoder and pasted the garbled text in 
it and used the "decode" online feature, and the result is perfectly 
legible once decoded, whether I choose utf-8 or ascii as charset (but I 
should use utf-8).

So, looks like the feed is "echoed" or "printed" in base64 format....
It doesn't look like charset is the problem but decoding base64.

I can see the base64_decode function here
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php>
but not sure if this is the right way to go about this; or how to apply 
it in this script.

I am going about this fairly blind, I must say, and doing trial and error
which is just wrong....

Again, this is the script.
<http://linuxtrove.com/wp/?p=209>

Any pointers?

Tx.

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Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-02 15:53 +0000
  Re: Encoding Problems Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-02 15:15 -0400
    Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-03 10:18 +0000
  Re: Encoding Problems Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-02 21:49 +0200
    Re: Encoding Problems bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-07-03 08:09 -0400
  Re: Encoding Problems Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-02 22:25 +0200
    Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-03 10:16 +0000
  Re: Encoding Problems bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-07-03 08:08 -0400
    Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-03 13:17 +0000
  Re: Encoding Problems Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-05 03:16 +0200
    Re: Encoding Problems Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-05 03:19 +0200
      Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-10 13:57 +0000
        Re: Encoding Problems Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-11 18:47 +0200
          Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-14 08:35 +0000
          Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-18 09:06 +0000
            Re: Encoding Problems Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-18 10:29 +0100
              Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-18 09:38 +0000
                Re: Encoding Problems Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-18 11:05 +0100
                Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-18 11:42 +0000
                Re: Encoding Problems Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-18 14:32 +0100
            Re: Encoding Problems Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-19 09:36 +0200
              Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-29 13:58 +0000
    Re: Encoding Problems Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-05 03:28 +0200
      Re: Encoding Problems Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-06 01:36 +0200
        Re: Encoding Problems Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 02:16 +0000
          Re: Encoding Problems Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-07-05 23:19 -0400
            Re: Encoding Problems gordonb.defz8@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2014-07-06 00:21 -0500
              Re: Encoding Problems Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-07-06 07:14 -0400
                Re: Encoding Problems Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-07-07 01:24 +0000
        Re: Encoding Problems Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-06 15:30 +0200
          Re: Encoding Problems Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-06 21:46 +0200
            Re: Encoding Problems Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-07-06 16:21 -0400
              Re: Encoding Problems Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-07-07 03:49 +0200
    Re: Encoding Problems stef_204 <notvalid@nomail.nul> - 2014-07-10 13:18 +0000

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