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| mhp From: new york, NY USA Posts: 47 Member Since: 04/24/02 |
posted January 23, 2004 6:18 PM Using the smtp control, if you do smtp.message.addtext sUTF8Message, "UTF8" it encodes the message properly. but the content-type is set to "UTF8" which mail programs do not recognize as being equal to UTF-8. If you then manually change the encoding in your mail program it will display correctly. but if you do smtp.message.addText sUTF8Message, "UTF-8" the message is sent encoded INcorrectly. the content-type is now UTF-8 but the bytes are way wrong. Any workarounds to this? Or can you change the code that looks for the content-type to accept UTF-8 where it currently accepts UTF8? |
Tony Priest From: Utica, NY USA Posts: 8466 Member Since: 04/11/00 |
posted January 26, 2004 9:10 AM There is no encoding done using the AddText method. It's up to you to assure the the text you add is properly encoded with the charset that you specified. |
| spolsky From: New York, NY USA Posts: 1 Member Since: 01/26/04 |
posted January 26, 2004 9:12 PM Hi Tony! I work with Michael (mhp). We are actually encoding the message ourselves as UTF-8 using a utility function of our own that converts to UTF-8. When we call AddText with "UTF8" the message is sent correctly, although Dart adds a header which says "charset="UTF8"" which the mail user agent (Outlook) does not recognize and so Outlook guesses, incorrectly, that the message is encoded using Latin 1 which comes out wrong. When we call AddText with "UTF-8" and no other changes, the message is NOT sent correctly. Every character is converted to ?. Although Dart adds a header which says "charset="UTF-8"", so Outlook knows that it's a message encoded in UTF-8, but the bytes of the message are messed up in some way so the whole message consists of question marks. I do not know what really happens with that second argument internally to Dart... it does seem like when we use "UTF-8" somebody somewhere tries to do some kind of encoding or decoding which messes up the message, and we don't understand what it is. |
| Tony Priest From: Utica, NY USA Posts: 8466 Member Since: 04/11/00 |
posted January 26, 2004 10:12 PM Please make a sample program that we can run here. Make sure that you include the encoded UTF. After you create the message, use Message.Store to store the file as "utfmessage.eml" Ideally I should just be able to press a button and the message should be created. Please zip up the source and email it to support@dart.com |
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