Mail with Unicode Characters (Cyrillic) in Subject

843810

Hello,

how can we send an email with Unicode characters (more specifically, Cyrillic) in the Subject line, using java.awt.Desktop?
Here is the small piece of code:

...
if (!Desktop.isDesktopSupported())
    return false;
Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
if (!desktop.isSupported(Desktop.Action.MAIL)) 		    
    return false;

String sURI = "[email protected]?SUBJECT=\u041f\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432";

URI uri = new URI("mailto", sURI, null);
desktop.mail(uri);
...

MS Outlook will pop open but will show question marks in the subject line (???????).

When I tried to encode the Unicode string with URLEncoder (or with my own base64 encoder), the subject line shows that string just as it is (encoded).

String sURI = "[email protected]?SUBJECT=" + URLEncoder.encode("\u041f\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432", "utf-8");

Can anything be done here? The similar question is applicable also for body of the email.

Regards

843810

In the meantime, I had to solve my problem one way or another, and the only thing that came up to my mind was to use JavaMail API.
It is not quite what I was hoping for, because it doesn't provide opening of default e-mail client on local machine, but at least it can send e-mail with Unicode characters in the subjects line, recipient addresses, etc.

Make a new message using JavaMail and then set it's properties in a fairly simple manner, like this:

message.setSubject( MimeUtility.encodeText("+ ... some Unicode text with Cyrillic symbols ... +", "UTF-8", "B") );

I'd still like to see if there are any suggestions on how to do the similar thing with java.awt.Desktop.

Regards,
PS

877458

I exactly followed your code, however, the subject still shows unicode, not the Chinese I expected.

message.setSubject(MimeUtility.encodeText("亲爱的用户", "UTF-8", "B"));

Anything suggestions?

DrClap

My suggestion would be

message.setSubject("亲爱的用户");

877458

I tried that before and it did not work. The subject still shows unicode, not Chinese.

Any other suggestions?

DrClap

My suggestion would be to have posted the question in the JavaMail forum in the first place. However now my suggestion is to go over there and search for answers.

877458

Tried and could not find any answers. If you find one, please let me know. Thanks,