Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lars Enderin Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: javax.mail sends mail with broken charset Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 11:13:18 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5385A8AE.4050206@telia.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net Mtvze/OgSxaue6VMJcNGdZvOyzVE/r/iWGdCFqOvO5i4sj7qWAWmE+axS54c2ROP41DYX7qm10uf7yFKJkOq0livFfSxz6nhuR4xqJGCublwnz4Yg4P2k5X5h1475zjI NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 09:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="g8J2/1thG0lX4PJD6mR0NJXB4KA8c+8WtR4NmrZe7H4oMytnzwGolf8iDSBJm1BmvOD2YxmrMDqcysZLs3jX2n8VuF4Qocq+CJuM9DOG7U2sdvljGfg5GaFNSBEh9WyP"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:pHDVCpT8SyFeNGvwVgStTMskQNo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28572 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 "δί" 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 "δί", 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