Problem with confirmation emails in Japanese

[gingabox]

Hello everyone,
I am hoping someone can help me out with a problem I am having with the order confirmation emails when they are sent in Japanese.

The character encoding seems to be fine, but I am still getting garbled characters for some information in the email. It seems to be all of the information coming out of /includes/classes/orders.php but I do not know anyway to fix that.

Thank you in advance if you might have some idea of a fix. Everything else is displaying correctly site wide

The email is received as:
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注文確認書 from Lae - http://lae.xtr.jp

ラッセル ライアン���͡Ë

ご利用ありがとうございます。
ご注文内容は以下の通りです。
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ご注文番号: 86
ご注文日: 2011年01月18日(Tue)
請求明細書:
http://lae.xtr.jp/index.php?main_pag...fo&order_id=86

商品
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1 x ＣＣパンツ (pa-001) = ￥3,990
サイズ L
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小計: ￥3,990
店頭で受け取り (): ￥0
合計: ￥3,990

お届け先
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removed address * it displays correctly
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removed address * it displays correctly
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Bank Transfer /銀行振替 Pay at the Store
/店の支&#25173

[cjcraven]

Hello everyone,
I am hoping someone can help me out with a problem I am having with the order confirmation emails when they are sent in Japanese.

The character encoding seems to be fine, but I am still getting garbled characters for some information in the email. It seems to be all of the information coming out of /includes/classes/orders.php but I do not know anyway to fix that.

Thank you in advance if you might have some idea of a fix. Everything else is displaying correctly site wide

The email is received as:
------------------------------------------------
注文確認書 from Lae - http://lae.xtr.jp

ラッセル ライアン���͡Ë

ご利用ありがとうございます。
ご注文内容は以下の通りです。
------------------------------------------------------
ご注文番号: 86
ご注文日: 2011年01月18日(Tue)
請求明細書:
http://lae.xtr.jp/index.php?main_pag...fo&order_id=86

商品
------------------------------------------------------
1 x ＣＣパンツ (pa-001) = ￥3,990
サイズ L
------------------------------------------------------
小計: ￥3,990
店頭で受け取り (): ￥0
合計: ￥3,990

お届け先
------------------------------------------------------
removed address * it displays correctly
------------------------------------------------------
removed address * it displays correctly
------------------------------------------------------
Bank Transfer /銀行振替 Pay at the Store
/店の支払

Garbled Text
Just a guess, perhaps the php file is not encoded correctly or the database is not UTF-8. A lot of the orginal Japanese text from zen-cart Japan is not UTF-8 encoded. I downloaded TeraPad Japanese text editor and opened the Japanese php files then copied and pasted the file into Notepad++. Notepad has to be set to encode in UTF-8 without BOM. I then saved the Notepad file in the same folder then later renamed it to the correct file name. If the database is not set for utf8_general_ci then you will have to change tables and fields.