Javamail changing charset of subject line

Question

I am using Javamail (javax.mail) to send mails. I successfully adjusted contents of my mail as utf-8. However I could not set subject line as a utf-8 encoded string.

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Answer 1

Solved.

mail.setSubject(MimeUtility.encodeText(subject, "utf-8", "B"));

solves it and sends utf-8 encoded mail subjects. \n/

the legal values for "encoding" are "Q" and "B"... The "Q" encoding is recommended for use when most of the characters to be encoded are in the ASCII character set; otherwise, the "B" encoding should be used.

See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047.