Sending arabic email

Question

Hello there
i want to send an arabic email in my portlet application.
but every time I do this i get an unreadable text or evern nothing when applying the Arabic encoding on the output string. I tried to use a unicode settings inside the email like (UTF8,UTF16, Latin/Arabic Alphabet,windows-1256) but with no luck, I didn't get the desired result.
i read this article : http://developers.sun.com/jscreator/learning/tutorials/2/email.html and replaced the unicode type like this
        String from = "[email protected]"; // from address
        String to = " [email protected]"; // to address
        String mailserver = "smptserver";
        // please note that if your mail server requires authentication,
        // this code may not work
        try {
        sun.net.smtp.SmtpClient client = new sun.net.smtp.SmtpClient( mailserver );
        client.from(from);
        client.to(to);
        java.io.PrintStream message = client.startMessage();
        message.println("To: " + to);
        // the encoding header
        message.println("Content-type: text/plain; charset= windows-1256");
        message.println("Content-language: ar");
        //message.println("Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit");also i try with this line and without it
        message.println("");
        // TODO: set the subject line
        message.println("Subject: Customer Comments");
        // TODO: set the body of the message
        // encode the message body correctly
        String mesg = getTextArea1().getText().toString() + "\r\n";
        Charset charset = Charset.forName("Cp1256");
        CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder();
        CharBuffer charBuff = CharBuffer.wrap(mesg.toCharArray ());
        ByteBuffer byteBuff = encoder.encode(charBuff);
        String newMesg = new String(byteBuff.array());
        message.println(newMesg);   I tested several encodings without any useful result.
what should I do ? can anyone help me please ?
thank you in advance.

Answer 1

the problem of the arabic text was solved for the database by using the utf8 encoding
but the problem remains when the send email portlet was deployed on the liferay 4.2.2
although it is fully working on the liferay 4.3.2
thanks in advance