Question concerning special characters (i.e. Kanji signs) within JavaMail

Hello everybody,
I'm trying to create and send E-Mails out of an struts-/JSP-application where users may enter some remarks.
These remarks can contain special characters like ampersand, German umlauts, Kanji signs etc.
Now what do I have to do/to encode or whatever in order to send these remarks as message contents using the JavaMail API in order to get them displayed correctly within Mozillas (and other) mail clients?
The best results I achieved so far was while using "text/html" when setting content into a MimeMessage object.
But unfortunately all CRLFs entered within the remark fields were missing (ok, I can adjust them when converting the CRLF into <BR> as long as using "text/html") and furthermore the Kanji signs were only displayed as question marks.
I converted every character/sign entered into the remarks field into Java-unicode chacracters (from their HTML entity representation). When doing so the Kanji characters are displayed correctly while shown within MS Excel in a sheet the has been created by JExcel API (Java) but they aren't displayed within mail clients!
What do I have to do in order to get them displayed correctly?
Will I have all the content to be wrapped into HTML body-tags (<head></head><body> --- content --- </body>) when sending mails using "text/html"?
Many thanks in advance
Best regards

Ok, found a solution for the Kanji Signs: setting the content using setText(string, "UTF-8"); does the job.
Now I'll only have to adjust the non-Kanji-HTML-Entities like & &#013; and so on.
Tey can be mixed with Kanji signs in the same string.
Any Ideas?

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