Character set for mail templates?

[markroy]

jBPM 4.2 / JBoss / Windows XP

I've got a string-type process variable that contains a unicode \u2019 (a right single quote aka apostrophe). I use that process variable in my mail template's 'text' and 'html' elements.

When the mail arrives, the unicode character has been replaced with a '?' indicating that the character could not be mapped to the current character set, which apparently is Windows-1252.

Is there a way to specify the character set? Other way to correct this problem?

[kukeltje]

I suggest to first make sure you set the right charset in your AS

[markroy]

Setting the JVM properties file.encoding or mail.mime.charset DO affect the charset used for the [text] content from the mail template, but neither seem to have any effect on the [html] content.

I also tried setting these properties in the jbpm.mail.properties file (which is where I'd expect mail.mime.charset to have some effect) but they had no effect on [text] or [html] at all.

[kukeltje]

what is the character setting of the html mail when it arrives?

[markroy]

Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit