How to send mail bodies with german umlauts using System.Net.Mail ?

[Roberto Rocco]

Hello,

I'm using VS 2005 and I need to send a mail body which contains german
umlauts (ä,ö,ü).

When I receive the mail in Outlook 2003 (english operating system) I always
get a '|' or other similar symbols instead of the expected umlaut.

I'm using Sstem.Net.Mail and I already tried something like this:
string body = "this is some sample äöüÄÖÜß HTML text";

System.Net.Mail .AlternateView htmlView =
System.Net.Mail .AlternateView. CreateAlternate ViewFromString( body,
Encoding.Unicod e, "text/html");

mail.AlternateV iews.Add(htmlVi ew);

and also this:

string body = "this is some sample äöüÄÖÜß HTML text";

System.Net.Mail .AlternateView htmlView =
System.Net.Mail .AlternateView. CreateAlternate ViewFromString( body,
Encoding.GetEnc oding("iso-8859-1"), "text/html");

mail.AlternateV iews.Add(htmlVi ew);

In both cases I receive the wrong message body without the umlauts.

What am I doing wrong? Am I missing something?

Many thanks in advance,

Roberto Rocco.

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Roberto,

Using MailMessage use the properties BodyEncoding and SubjectEndocing (2.0
only).

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:19:31 +0100, Roberto Rocco
<ro***********@ atoll.bizwrote:

Hello,

I'm using VS 2005 and I need to send a mail body which contains german
umlauts (ä,ö,ü).

When I receive the mail in Outlook 2003 (english operating system) I
always
get a '|' or other similar symbols instead of the expected umlaut.

I'm using Sstem.Net.Mail and I already tried something like this:
string body = "this is some sample äöüÄÖÜß HTML text";

System.Net.Mail .AlternateView htmlView =
System.Net.Mail .AlternateView. CreateAlternate ViewFromString( body,
Encoding.Unicod e, "text/html");

mail.AlternateV iews.Add(htmlVi ew);

and also this:

string body = "this is some sample äöüÄÖÜß HTML text";

System.Net.Mail .AlternateView htmlView =
System.Net.Mail .AlternateView. CreateAlternate ViewFromString( body,
Encoding.GetEnc oding("iso-8859-1"), "text/html");

mail.AlternateV iews.Add(htmlVi ew);

In both cases I receive the wrong message body without the umlauts.

What am I doing wrong? Am I missing something?

Many thanks in advance,

Roberto Rocco.

--
Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]