Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset

From:

Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 29 May 2014 11:56:39 +0200

Message-ID:

<53870457.5060806@telia.com>

2014-05-29 09:35, Laura Schmidt skrev:

On 05/29/2014 09:19 AM, Laura Schmidt wrote:

the following change to my code solved the problem:

.... but I don't know why. The new mail reads like this:

Message-ID:
<22731732.1.1401347792347.JavaMail.tomcat7@h1403230.stratoserver.net>
Subject: Test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 09:16:32 +0200 (CEST)

Test: =C3=A4=C3=9F

The header is the same, but the code for "??" changed from "=E4=DF " to
"=C3=A4=C3=9F".

That looks right. To see the original characters, you need a mail client
or other program that understands quoted-printable. In your first
attempt, you seem to have used ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding. What
default encoding does the JVM assume? Inside Java, the characters are
encoded as 16-bit characters, a form of UTF-16. The encoding only
matters when you write to or from a byte stream or file.

--
Lars Enderin