Unicode chars and Spring JavaMailSenderImpl, no unicode chars under Linux!

Question

I\'m using Spring and JavaMailSenderImpl, a famous spring class to send emails. My emails contain a lot of unicode chars like èéàò or most notably the dreaded € symbol. My c

Answer 1

In my case, I resolved the encoding problem by specifying JavaMailSenderImpl's defaultEncoding:

mailSender = new JavaMailSenderImpl();
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mailSender.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8");

I believe you can also set the value in bean configuration:

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