PHP5 - Forms and diacritical marks in different languages (or special characters)

Hello Folks,

I am running Apache 2.2.22 and php 5.3.12 and I have a simple registration form that is used all over the world. When someone from a country like Spain uses the form their responses are jumbled because of the encoding...at least I think it is called 'encoding'...basically I would like a way to ensure that when someone in Spain or France enters a character with a diacritical mark, the form will send it the way it was entered, no matter what the character is.

I thought if I added utf8 to the headers it would fix this but it doesn't...

Any assistance would be highly appreciated.

Thank you,
Jenny

Where are you reading the responses? That needs to be UTF-8 too.
Are you putting these into a database? That needs to be UTF-8 too. And the connection to the database.

There's an entry in the FAQ that contains more details.

I am reading the response in Outlook...I will look into the settings there for my business email. Thank you!

I appreciate the reference, I had actually already looked at this and used some of the suggestions but alas it didn't help however, I am now looking into the fact that the form is submitted to Outlook mail which might be causing the issue.
I think the best thing to do here is to just store the answers in a database and just have an alert sent when someone registers, then I can control how the information is displayed much easier.
Thank you!
Jen