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Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset

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From	Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com>
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Subject	Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset
Date	Wed, 28 May 2014 11:13:18 +0200
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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 "äß" 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 "äß", 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.

-- 
Lars Enderin

Thread

javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Laura Schmidt <ls@mailinator.com> - 2014-05-28 08:30 +0200
  Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2014-05-28 11:13 +0200
    Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2014-05-28 11:24 +0200
    Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-05-29 12:55 +0200
  Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2014-05-28 09:01 -0500
  Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Laura Schmidt <ls@mailinator.com> - 2014-05-29 09:19 +0200
    Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Laura Schmidt <ls@mailinator.com> - 2014-05-29 09:35 +0200
      Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-05-29 09:48 +0000
      Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2014-05-29 11:56 +0200
      Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Laura Schmidt <ls@mailinator.com> - 2014-05-30 12:16 +0200
        Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2014-05-30 13:22 +0200
          Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2014-05-30 20:01 +0200
  Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-05-29 09:43 +0000
  Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-05-29 15:31 -0700

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