Sending strange characters in JavaMail

[Farakh khan]

I written a program by using javaMail API but when am sending mail in English language I receive in readable shape but when am sending mail in Arabic then am receiving strange characters. What should I do?

Thanks & best regards

[Rob Spoor]

Change the charset you are using. I believe the charset is part of the content type in emails. For instance, from one of my own emails:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

Just use the same for your emails but then of course with a charset that supports Arabic characters.

[Pat Farrell]

Is it really as simple as setting the charset?

Do the RFC's allow non-ASCII in the headers?

I assume that non-ASCII bodies are simply converted as MIME-parts during transport.

[Paul Clapham]

Pat Farrell wrote:Do the RFC's allow non-ASCII in the headers?

Yes, they do. And JavaMail takes care of implementing the complicated escaping that the RFCs require.

[Pat Farrell]

Paul Clapham wrote: JavaMail takes care of implementing the complicated escaping that the RFCs require.

I bet is quite complicated.

In the olden days, when I spoke RFC, the headers had to be 8-bit clean. And they really wanted 7 bit US ASCII.

Guess the Internet really is international.