PHP Curl post with non-english characters - php

Question

I have a small problem with php curl post.
I am trying to post some turkish characters to a forum but aren't posted how it should be.
This is how i save the text:
fwrite($fpp,"\xEF\xBB\xBF");
fwrite($fpp, $row['template']);
fclose($fpp);
and posting:
$this->curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_URL, $this->vb_url . 'newthread.php?' . $url_vars );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,20);
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10);
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $this->cookie_name );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $this->cookie_name );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $this->cookie_name );
curl_setopt ( $this->curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1');
$result = curl_exec ( $this->curl );
this is how it should be:
`Bölüm resimleri, dizi indirme ve altyazı linkine aşağıdan ulaşabilirsiniz.`
this is how it is posted:
`Bölüm resimleri, dizi indirme ve altyazı linkine aşağıdan ulaşabilirsiniz.`
Thanks

Answer 1

From http://php.net/manual/es/function.curl-setopt.php
Try adding:
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array (
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8"
));
application/x-www-form-urlencoded suggested by #spencercw

Answer 2

Fixed with
$message = #iconv("UTF-8","Windows-1252//IGNORE",$message);