Does MimeUtility.decodeText work ?

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to write a super simple little program which decodes a Quoted Printable string and display it in the iso-8859-1 character set.Really it抯 a 1 line program (full code below)

subject = MimeUtility.decodeText(args[0]);

This is what it looks like when its working

java decode_subject =?iso-8859-1?Q?Deutsche_B=F6rse_Tops_NYSE_Bid_for_Euronext_by_?=

Deutsche B鰎se Tops NYSE Bid for Euronext by

On iso-8859-1 machines it works like the above (WinXP, old Linux boxes) but if I run it on a UTF-8 machine it doesn抰 work (and I抦 getting even worse results when I call it via .forward file in my mailer).

As far as I can tell this setting doesn't work at all

System.setProperty("mail.mime.charset", "ISO-8859-1");

Here is what I get on a UTF-8 default machine

Deutsche B枚rse Tops NYSE Bid for Euronext by

To do a little debugging I added a println to show me the JavaCharset() and this is the type of output that comes out

Deutsche B枚rse Tops NYSE Bid for Euronext by

ISO-8859-1

The program is claiming to be in ISO-8859-1 but the result it clearly 2 bytes wide.

Here is the code, I've put a string into the program for easy testing and // commented out the argv lines, you can swap them around if you want to play with it. For the life of me I can't see why this doesn't work, the idea was for it to be called by a mail forwarder, but that displays the ?as a ? so it seems the System.setProperty("mail.mime.charset", "iso-8859-1");

isn't doing what I expected it to.

Can anyone spot a bug in my code ? or does this JavaMail not actually work ?

import java.net.*;

import java.io.*;

import java.util.*;

import java.text.*;

import javax.mail.*;

import javax.mail.event.*;

import javax.mail.internet.*;

public class decode_subject {

public static void main(String args[])

{

System.setProperty("mail.mime.charset", "iso-8859-1");

//String subject = "";

String subject = "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Deutsche_B=F6rse_Tops_NYSE_Bid_for_Euronext_by_?=";

try {

//subject = MimeUtility.decodeText(args[0]);

subject = MimeUtility.decodeText(subject);

} catch (Exception ioEx) {

}

System.out.println(subject);

System.out.println(MimeUtility.getDefaultJavaCharset());

}

[2397 byte] By [scott@iaa] at [2007-10-2 21:05:34]