Re: [Classpathx-javamail] UnsupportedEncodingException for unicode-1-1-utf-7

[Chris Burdess]

Boris Folgmann wrote:
> I get this exception when parsing an email:
> 
> java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: unicode-1-1-utf-7       at 
> sun.io.Converters.getConverterClass(Converters.java:218)     at 
> sun.io.Converters.newConverter(Converters.java:251)  at 
> sun.io.ByteToCharConverter.getConverter(ByteToCharConverter.java:68) at 
> sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$ConverterSD.<init>(StreamDecoder.java:224)  at 
> sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$ConverterSD.<init>(StreamDecoder.java:210)  at 
> sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.forInputStreamReader(StreamDecoder.java:77) at 
> java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:83)  at 
> gnu.mail.handler.Text.getContent(Text.java:106)      at 
> javax.activationDataSourceDataContentHandler.getContent(DataHandler.java:803) 
> at javax.activation.DataHandler.getContent(DataHandler.java:550)       at 
> javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart.getContent(MimeBodyPart.java:691)   at 
> gnu.mail.providers.imap.IMAPBodyPart.getContent(IMAPBodyPart.java:282)
> 
> The encoding might be unsupported by JavaSE 5.0, but as it is a common 
> encoding of emails, as you can read in RFC1642 (UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe 
> Transformation Format of Unicode), I don't see why javamail shouldn't support 
> it.
> 
> Is it possible to implement a dirty work-around like forcing the BodyPart's 
> encoding to US-ASCII before calling getContent()? I couldn't find a suitable 
> method.

UTF7 is supported, however I have never heard of anything being identified as 
"unicode-1-1-utf-7". Do you have a copy of the original message to hand?
-- 
Chris Burdess