We are storing Chinese / Japanese / Korean data in UTF-8 format in the database. If we want to dispaly that data on a browser through a
JSP /
Servlet, we use
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
This automatically changes the browser's setting (view/encoding) to UTF-8 & data of the above languages is displayed correctly.
Now we also have to send an email message which is formed dynamically using some values from the database (e.g. first name, seminar_name etc.). We are using JavaMail API for this & we use
MimeMessage.setContent(string_message,"text/html;charset=UTF-8");
There are 2 probs in the above approach:
1. Say a mail is sent with Japanese data. A user having Jap-NT/Jap-MS-Outlook can view it perfectly but the same email will show junk in English NT.
2. The same email when viewed from say yahoo/hotmail etc. will show correctly only if I manually change the Browser Setting (view/Encoding) to UTF-8.
Do you have any material / solution as to how to send multilang emails which can be seen even on English-NT/Outlook? Please mail me any info that u have on abv.
my email:
anandmathuria@rediffmail.com thanks a lot in advance.
regards,
anand