Magento issue with email charset - magento

Question

I have a little issue. I'm using to send mail in my custom module this piece of code:
$content = 'Wiadomość testowa ąśźć';
$mail = Mage::getModel('core/email');
$mail->setToName($name);
$mail->setToEmail($email);
$mail->setBody($content);
$mail->setSubject($subject);
$mail->setFromEmail('test#test.com');
$mail->setFromName("Test");
$mail->setType('html');
try {
$mail->send();
Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->setData('success',Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('Your request has been sent'));
}
catch (Exception $e) {
Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->setData('error',Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('Unable to send email.'));
}
How can I set utf-8 charset before sending email in magento mail function. ?
I get email with no utf-8 charset in email body.
SOLVED
I created sendZendMail function in helper.
I used this function, instead Magento core/email:
public function sendZendMail($name,$email,$subject,$content){
$mail = new Zend_Mail('UTF-8');
$mail->setBodyHtml($content);
$mail->setFrom('your#frommail.com');
$mail->addTo($email, 'No reply');
$mail->setSubject($subject);
try {
$mail->send();
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess('Mail was sucessfully send.');
}
catch(Exception $ex) {
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('Unable to send email.');
}
}

Answer 1

kristoff, I had the same issue before with Portuguese, which also has special characters. I've sorted it out by using the function htmlentities() for accented words. The Zend Mail Object is a bit retarded. I hope it helps.