[ROL-1738] Charset of E-Mail Subject Needs to be configurable

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.1.0
• Component/s: Installation & Configuration
• Assignee: Roller Unassigned
• Reporter: SATO Naoki
• Created: 24/Jul/08 05:48
• Updated: 25/Aug/14 17:56
• Resolved: 19/Aug/13 03:51

Description

org.apache.roller.weblogger.util.MailUtil#sendMessage() method uses javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage#setSubject(String subject) method, in which the subject is encoded using the platform's default charset.

http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/mail/internet/MimeMessage.html#setSubject(java.lang.String)

In Japanese environment, many old e-mail clients supports only ISO-2022-JP, and not Shift_JIS (default charset in Windows) or EUC-JP (default charset in UNIX). Recent e-mail clients supports other charset including UTF-8.

To improve i18n support in Roller, could you use MimeMessage#setSubject(String subject, String charset) with "UTF-8" charset? Making charset configuable using a new custom property is a plus.