Like every weekend, today I was spending time on writing application for my MSc thesis. Among few tasks I planned for today one was connected with sending messages/notifications to the internal discussion group of my dormitory using NNTP protocol.
Short research showed that this should be a piece of cake. Below small code snippet showing how to send message using library Apache Commons Net.
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
NNTPClient client = new NNTPClient();
client.connect("news.ustronie.pw.edu.pl");
client.selectNewsgroup("pw.test");
Writer postArticle = client.postArticle();
SimpleNNTPHeader headers =
new SimpleNNTPHeader("Tomasz Dziurko <tdziurko@gmail.com>", "Test kodowania polskich znaków");
headers.addNewsgroup("pw.test");
headers.addHeaderField("Mime-Version", "1.0");
headers.addHeaderField("Content-Type","text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
headers.addHeaderField("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "8bit");
postArticle.write(headers.toString());
postArticle.write("ąęóśłżźćń - test polskich znaków\r\n");
postArticle.close();
client.completePendingCommand();
client.disconnect();
}
}
Everything worked as expected until I started to use Polish characters in the message. Then instead of “ąęóśłżźćń” I saw following picture:
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