utf-16 encoded email in sharepoint 2010 is possibile?

Question

Is it possibile to send an html email encoded in utf-16 with sharepoint 2010? My problem is that I have a message body wich can contain accented characters which on the receiving end are displayed wrong. I suppose this is because c# stores strings in utf-16 but sharepoint sends them in utf-8.

This is the code I'm using to send these emails:

StringDictionary headers = new StringDictionary();

headers.Add("to", user.Email);
headers.Add("from", "no-reply@domainname.com");
headers.Add("subject", oggetto);
headers.Add("content-type", "text/html"); 

SPUtility.SendEmail(mySite, headers, messaggio);

I tried also:

headers.Add("content-type", "text/html; charset:utf-16"); 

But in the headers of the email I get

text/html; charset:utf-16; charset=utf-8

So no luck for me.

Any idea?

Answer 1

Instead of using UTF-16 which seem difficult, you could replace your accented characters with the equivalent utf-8-safe numerical code. This would look like the the following:

string body = messageBody.Replace("à", "à");
body = body.Replace("á", "á");

This will effectively give your html-email-body the correct character encoding and would be displayed correct when viewed as a html message.

List: HTML Codes - HTML Special Characters