I'm trying to parse an email that is partially written in English and partially written in Japanese using PHP. Here's the code I have so far:
if ($mbox = imap_open($mailbox, $username, $password)) {
$inbox = imap_check($mbox);
$total = (int) $inbox->Nmsgs;
$min = max(1, $total - 10);
// fetch 10 most recent emails
if ($total > 0 && ($emails = imap_fetch_overview($mbox, "{$min}:{$total}"))) {
foreach ($emails as $email) {
$body = imap_body($mbox, $email->uid, FT_UID);
// for testing purposes
echo $body;
// parsing logic here
}
}
}
So as you can see I'm just echoing out the plaintext body of the email, just to test things, and here's part of the echoed response I get when I run this script:
Your Japanese word of the day is: ç”·ã®å
However, the following is what I should see in place of that, based on what's actually in the email:
Your Japanese word of the day is: 男の子
So clearly something's being lost in translation (pun intended). I'm using some simple string manipulation to try and parse the Japanese characters, and then insert them into a MySQL database. However, it's currently inserting those gobbledygook characters instead. What am I missing?
Edit: I'm using PHP version 5.4.45
