Polish characters receive messages imap

Question

I have problem with Polish characters (ś,ć,ż,ź,ń,ó) When I receive body of mail i get "??" for everyone Polish char.

   MailMessage temp_message = receive.get_message(mail);
   temp_message.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(28592);

this is result :

UTF 8 , 16 not work too

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '16 at 07:42

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That isn't strange since you can't convert a string from one encoding to another. What you are doing doesn't make any sense at all.

The MailMessage class supports setting the encoding, which is a much better option that converting around. Just set the BodyEncoding to whatever you need, preferably UTF-8 or UTF-16 since that is the best option for international characters.

answered May 30 '16 at 07:42

Patrick Hofman

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I wrote : temp_message.BodyEncoding=System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; but this solution didn't work for me – Jackop May 30 '16 at 07:49
Did you remove all your converting around? What is the original input string? – Patrick Hofman May 30 '16 at 07:54
So they are already screwed up in the string itself. Where do you get it from? – Patrick Hofman May 30 '16 at 08:00
receive mail : MailMessage message = imap.GetMessage(uid); – Jackop May 30 '16 at 08:06
What is `imap`? And where is that `GetMessage` method? Is that something of yourself? – Patrick Hofman May 30 '16 at 08:07
Yes, that one is broken. It reads using ASCII: `string s = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(mem.ToArray());`. – Patrick Hofman May 30 '16 at 08:17
Thank you , sorry for the primitive issue but I'm beginning career with the programming – Jackop May 30 '16 at 08:21
No problem. Try to change `ASCII` to `UTF8` there and see if it works. – Patrick Hofman May 30 '16 at 08:24

Polish characters receive messages imap

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