Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset

From:
Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 28 May 2014 11:24:05 +0200
Message-ID:
<5385AB35.2050209@telia.com>
2014-05-28 11:13, Lars Enderin skrev:

2014-05-28 08:30, Laura Schmidt skrev:

Hello,

I send mail with javax.mail and I noticed that some special chars are
broken.

I am using UTF-8 on my development system, where the mail generating
code is produced. The received mail also contains "charset=UTF-8".

But it's broken. The string "??" is delivered as "=E4=DF" ( see below).

How can I fix this?

Laura

Message-ID:
<13382290.1.1401258077688.JavaMail.tomcat7@h1403230.stratoserver.net>
Subject: Test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 08:21:17 +0200 (CEST)

Test: =E4=DF


Did you intend to send the two characters "??", i e LATIN SMALL LETTER A
WITH TILDE, and LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S? These are iso-8859-1
characters, correctly encoded as "=E4=DF" in quoted-printable. It seems
to be an interpretation error at the receiving end.


Or you have actually sent the two characters as iso-8859-1, despite the
header. Could you change to 8-bit instead of quoted-printable?

--
Lars Enderin

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