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Special Characters in Amazon SES


I'm using AWS SDK for PHP (https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php) to send emails using Amazon SES. Here's the code:

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Aws\Ses\SesClient;

$client = SesClient::factory(array(
    'key'    => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
    'secret' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
    'region' => 'eu-west-1'
));

$result = $client->sendEmail(array(
    // Source is required
    'Source' => 'Télécom Co <[email protected]>',
    // Destination is required
    'Destination' => array(
        'ToAddresses' => array('Grégory Smith <[email protected]>')
    ),
    // Message is required
    'Message' => array(
        // Subject is required
        'Subject' => array(
            // Data is required
            'Data' => 'The subject',
            'Charset' => 'utf-8',
        ),
        // Body is required
        'Body' => array(
            'Text' => array(
                // Data is required
                'Data' => 'The message',
                'Charset' => 'utf-8',
            )
        ),
    )
));

?>

The problem is that in the email clients "Télécom" appears like "T�l�com" and "Grégory" like "Gr�gory".

Are there any solutions for this problem?


Solution

  • Here's the solution:

    <?php
    
    require 'vendor/autoload.php';
    
    use Aws\Ses\SesClient;
    
    $client = SesClient::factory(array(
        'key'    => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
        'secret' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
        'region' => 'eu-west-1'
    ));
    
    
    $from_name = base64_encode("Télécom Co");
    $from = "=?utf-8?B?$from_name?= <[email protected]>";
    
    $to_name = base64_encode('Grégory Smith');
    $to = array("=?utf-8?B?$to_name?= <[email protected]>");
    
    
    $result = $client->sendEmail(array(
        // Source is required
        'Source' => $from,
        // Destination is required
        'Destination' => array(
            'ToAddresses' => $to
        ),
        // Message is required
        'Message' => array(
            // Subject is required
            'Subject' => array(
                // Data is required
                'Data' => 'The subject',
                'Charset' => 'utf-8',
            ),
            // Body is required
            'Body' => array(
                'Text' => array(
                    // Data is required
                    'Data' => 'The message',
                    'Charset' => 'utf-8',
                )
            ),
        )
    ));
    
    ?>