Hard coding like that I was told is NOT permitted when I was doing beta testing.
if you open the stock phpMailer script (
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/blob/5.2-stable/class.phpmailer.php ) it looks like phpMailer defaults to iso-8859-1. A strange choice in 2018. Needless to say, it's in there as a default setting which can be modified as desired.
notes: phpMailer has been used as the default SMTP mailer for all of UBBT.threads forum software's existence -- long before I jumped on as the developer in 2015. I've recently been looking to upgrade past phpMailer, so we can get php 7.2+ compatibility while keeping the legacy php 5.6 guys still functional.
