Setting the message body using non US-ASCII data

The email message protocols state that the message body is limited to characters in the US-ASCII character set. In order to use characters in other languages that are outside of the US-ASCII character set the data must be encoded. The EmailMessage class handles this for you provided that you instruct it which character set to use when encoding the message.

Example

// create new email message

EmailMessage message = new EmailMessage();

// set body and character set encoding

message.setBody("Mit herzlichen Grüßen","iso-8859-1");