[Building Sakai] junk in email messages

[Charles Hedrick]

I have a fix for this. See KNL-876. 

On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:

> We had a complain that announcements containing special characters, e.g.  , show up with garbage characters in the plaintext version.
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> Looking at it, &nbsp turns into the correct NS character. However MyMessage in BasicEmailService checks to see whether all the characters can be handled with ISO_8859_1. They can, because it has NS. We then call 
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>                                                    bodyPart.setContent(partText.toString(), mimeType);
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> using a Mime type of text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1. Unfortunately it appears that the Java mail mechanism doesn't actually use the charset here (and even using setText didn't help). It outputs UTF-8. However since the header claims ISO-8859-1, the mail program displays it incorrectly.
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> In theory it makes sense to use 8859 rather than UTF_8 where possible. But the Java mail code seems almost intentionally designed to make it impossible to get this right. I get buried in layers of objects with ill-defined properties. Does anyone know the BasicEmailService well enough to see what's going on?
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