better ISO/UTF-8 mail 2.0 contribution for OsCommerce V3.0 Afa 5
by Gergely

Some email cliens can not display correct OsCommerce OnLine Merchant 3.0 Alfa 5 "Vanillekripferl"
emails non iso-8859-1 based languages. If you see missed characters in sent emails body subject or name, try to use this contrib.


Compatibility: iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2 and more iso, at best utf-8 charset

/* better ISO/UTF-8 mail 2.0 contains
names, subject encoding
plain/tex body header correction in MIME
use global language setting in mail process
other corrections of better ISO/UTF-8 mail 2.0 contrib in

admin/includes/modules/newsletters/email.php
admin/includes/modules/newsletters/newsletter.php
admin/includes/modules/newsletters/products_notification.php
of missed MIME header setting.
*/



"The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) requires all Internet protocols to identify
the encoding used for character data, and the supported character encodings must
include UTF-8.[2] The Internet Mail Consortium (IMC) recommends that all email programs
be able to display and create mail using UTF-8"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Contains you can find in install_en.txt

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