[wp-hackers] Forum Post

[Carthik Sharma]

Of course, I meant either A or B above work, I mean both work. You
don't reallly have to do A and B to get things to work,only one of
them.

Carthik.


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:11:28 -0400, Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> >
> 
> 
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