Characters in Mail, RSS/XML Auto Mailer

[Covall99]

Hello, ive installed rss in my shop, works fine, dealt with the characters.

Now i have problems with contribution xml/rss auto mailer.

In that u type rss url and the script sends emails with new products to users. Everything ok but ive problems with characters.

Charset im using is iso-8859-2, its in the mail header. Osc original mailer works fine so i think problem is in the xml/rss auto mailer script, file - newsletter_auto.php

thats the fragment sending mail which causes problems-

// IMPORTANT***********************************************************************
**********
// Uncomment this section after testing 
$sql = 'SELECT `customers_firstname` , `customers_lastname` , `customers_email_address` '
	. ' FROM `customers` '
	. ' WHERE `customers_newsletter` = 1';
$result = mysql_query($sql)or die (mysql_error());

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$name = $row['customers_firstname'] .' '. $row['customers_lastname'];
$email = $row['customers_email_address'];

// IMPORTANT***********************************************************************
**********
// To test change $email to '[email protected]'
newsletter_mail($name, '[email protected], $subject, $GLOBALS['email_body'], $from, $from_email);
// ********************************************************************************
**********

// IMPORTANT***********************************************************************
**********
// Uncomment this section after testing 
}

// Function to send out the newsletters
 function newsletter_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_text, $from_email_name, $from_email_address) {
if (SEND_EMAILS != 'true') return false;

// Instantiate a new mail object
$message = new email(array('X-Mailer: SeekShopping Mailer'));

// Build the text version
$text = ($email_text);
if (EMAIL_USE_HTML == 'true') {
  $message->add_html($email_text, $text);
} else {
  $message->add_html($email_text, $text);
}

// Send message
$message->build_message();
$message->send($to_name, $to_email_address, $from_email_name, $from_email_address, $email_subject, '[email protected] ');
}

mysql_close($linkid);

 

is there any way to hard code $message to iso-8859-2. i heard of iconv function. Any suggestions? Thanks

ps. in oscommerce original mailer is funtion htmlspecialchars etc- because of that osc mails are ok?