Hello Oleg! 

Here is the relevant part of the exception stack trace: 

Caused by: java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: x-user-defined 
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.forInputStreamReader(StreamDecoder.java:52) 
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:83) 
at 
org.apache.james.mime4j.message.BasicTextBody.getReader(BasicTextBody.java:49) 

We receive, parse and archive a vast number of confidential e-mail messages 
(for which we use Mime4J) and every now and then we get an e-mail message that 
contains a non-standard character encoding name (in this case 
'x-user-defined'). With the old (0.6) Mime4J version we were still able to 
parse and read most of those e-mail messages because of the fallback character 
set in the parser. 

I can unfortunately not post the entire message here but the content-type 
header that caused the above exception looks like this: 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" 


Regards, 

Rickard Ekeroth 
Albourne Partners (Cyprus) Ltd. 

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Oleg Kalnichevski" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:41:27 PM 
Subject: Re: Content-Type Fallback Character Set 

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 14:44 +0000, Rickard Ekeroth wrote: 
> Hello! 
> 
> Would it be possible to add a feature that would allow for specifying a 
> fallback character set to use when the character set in a 'Content-Type' 
> header is not recognized by Java? In the old 0.6.2 version, that we used 
> before, the character set 'ISO-8859-1' was used as a fallback but in the 
> 0.7.2 version an UnsupportedEncodingException is thrown when the parser 
> encounters an unknown character set in a Content-Type header. 
> 

Rickard 

could you please post a complete stack trace of the exception and, if 
possible, the message content that caused it? Probably the best way to 
go about it would be to raise a change request in JIRA and attach both 
artifacts to it. 

Oleg 

> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Rickard Ekeroth 
> Albourne Partners (Cyprus) Ltd. 
> 
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