Indy: TidMessage removes all accents, How to disable this?

Question

I am sending e-mails using the indy components TidSMTP and TidMessage.

The mails I recieve are without accents.

If I do for example:

MyTIdMessage.Body.Text := 'Tèst';

As i recieve the e-mail I see "Test" instead of "Tèst"

Is there a way to tell TIdMessage not to ignore accents or is this bug?

Note: I am using Indy 10.5.8.0

Answer 1

Be sure to set the correct Enconding, ContentTransferEncoding and CharSet. Being one of the oldest protocol, mail is designed to be used by computers using only 7 bits, and non US-ASCII characters thereby needs to be encoded. There are some different ways (quoted-printable, ecc.)

Also check the OnInitializeISO event.

Answer 2

Make sure you set the correct CharSet by doing this

MyIdMessage.CharSet := 'US-ASCII';

the string values are listed in IdCharsetNames array.