Send mail containing special characters

[Kenbla]

Hi all, I have a Delphi XE application which sends mails upon request. The mail function works rather well but I sometimes have a problem with the swedish special characters åäö and ÅÄÖ. When I send a mail to a number of recipients it looks OK for most of them but not for all! The special characters doesn't display correctly for those individuals!
I set the charset property like this: MailMessage.CharSet := 'utf-8';

I have also tried to use:
[ul]
[li]MailMessage.Encoding := meMIME;[/li]
[li]MailMessage.Body.Text := UTF8Encode(sMsg);[/li]
[li]MailMessage.Subject := UTF8Encode(txtAmne.Gettext);[/li]
[/ul]
None of the above have helped!
Some of the recipients run 64 bit Windows and they get the mail with corrupt special characters!
I should also mention that the recipients of the mail are spread all around the world.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Kenbla

 

[DjangMan]

What components are you using to send the emails?

 

[Kenbla]

I'm using the TidSMTP and TidMessage classes to send e-mail

 

[DjangMan]

Perhaps try defining your strings as AnsiString instead of String or WideString instead of string. Perhaps you are experiencing a unicode issue.

 

[Kenbla]

Thanks for your advice. I have tried it but unfortunately it didn't help. It still looks the same!

 

[TonHu]

What client is displaying the received e-mail message? Is it unicode compliant?

 

[Kenbla]

The mails that are sent from my Delphi application goes to one mailserver and that mailserver distributes the mail to a number of different mailservers across the world. I don't have any idea what the client PC's looks like.
Can the different mailservers and/or client PC's be "unicode uncompliant"?

 

[TonHu]

Mailservers usually handle unicode correctly, but mail-clients don't have to comply to anything.
Who, using what mail-client, is complaining that it's not displaying correctly, and how have you checked & confirmed for yourself?

 

[Kenbla]

Hello, and thanks for your replies.
I don't have any idea what mail-clients the users have! They are spread around the world at different companies. I use MS Outlook and it works fine when I receive the mailmessages.

 

[DjangMan]

Download some other popular clients and see how they handle your emails. Examples would be: The Bat!, Pegasus Mail, Thunderbird, and smartphones.