Email special characters ß, ä ü ö not rendering

[jami1955]

I have the German zen cart installed and functioning here

http://kinderkostuemverleih.de

The problem is in the order confirmation (bestätigung) email will not render the special characters correctly. Here is from today's order confirmation email, an address in Freiburg in the confirmation email rendered like so:

KammertalstraÃe 13a
79112 Freiburg
Deutschland

... the ß is written as à . How can this be fixed? Is it a problem of the script not useing the correct character set (charset)? It makes the emails look unprofessional, would be great to fix this.
thanks
JSC
Hamburg

[webchills]

The German Zen-Cart version is completely utf-8
So check the following files:
includes/languages/german.php
includes/languages/english.php
YOURADMIN/includes/languages/german.php
YOURADMIN/includes/languages/english.php
If you are using a special german.php or english.php in your template override folder (includes/languages/YOURTEMPLATE) check them too.
All of them must have this definition:

// charset for web pages and emails
  define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');

[fish4two]

When I have special character problems, the first thing I do is go to the originating files and make sure they have been converted to UTF-8 without BOM in a text editor. I use Notepad++ and love it.

[eentje]

@fish4two

Das original US Zen-Cart ist ISO 8859-1 kodiert so wenn man dan die Deutsche Sprache aktiviert ist es logisch er kriegt Probleme.