Java Mail API - Encoding problems

Question

I\'m using Java Mail API and I\'m trying to send an email through Gmail\'s SMTP. How my program works: java.util.Scanner class is used to get user input - I\'m asking user f

Answer 1

    MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
    message.setSubject(subject, "UTF-8");
    message.setText(body, "UTF-8");

So one has to set the character encoding for both, body and subject.

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Addendum because of comment of @bartac

For the corresponding MimeBodyPart do a setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=UTF-8").