[wp-hackers] Forum Post

[Carthik Sharma]

The problem seems to be with mb_send_mail's choice of language/encoding.

I got the password reset email in a readable format by

a) using only mail() by removing the mb_send_mail
AND
b) by setting the language mb_language('English'); before the call to
mb_send_mail().
example for b):
function wp_mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers = '', $more = '') {
        if ( function_exists('mb_send_mail') ){
                mb_language('English');
                return mb_send_mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $more);
        }
        else
                return mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $more);
}

the mb_language is "Neutral" on my server, without my setting the
language, and this seems to be the reason why the password-reset email
sent is indecipherable.

It looks very much like mb_send_mail is useful for Japanese folks on
Japanese servers, which have the mb_language set right (to
Japanese/Kanji) but do we really need it, seeing as it does good only
for a limited section of the population.

I would go so far as to suggest using mb_send_mail only when the
mb_language setting is not "Neutral" , maybe!

As for the forum post, I don't know how best to answer it right now,
maybe we can wait till this problem is fixed in the source.

Regards,
Carthik.

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:43:02 +0100, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
> http://wordpress.org/support/3/14642
> 
> "I tried the 1.2.1 upgrade, both the full install and by uploading only
> the changed files. It worked fine except for the Email-the-Password
> feature; 1.2.1 emailed the password in Base64 code which, of course,
> doesn't work for login purposes:"
> 
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