Originally Posted by Rick
I switched the actual language encoding to UTF-8 and that's when I was able to actually send to people with chinese characters in their name. Well, that and changing htmlentities to htmlspecialchars. We'll be working to use UTF-8 as the default language encoding.

Do you mean that I should also make my web page UTF8-encoded ?
So , I have to transfer my language files to UTF8 encoding ? (It is big5 encoded now)

English is not my native language. I try my best to express my thought precisely. I hope you understand what I mean. If any misunderstanding results from culture gaps, I apologize first.