I am trying to send a HTML formatted e-mail with the code below. No matter what I do I just cannot seem to get certain swedish characters to work at all.

I even tried replacing the Å, Ö and Ä with å, ö and ä but the e-mail still parses them as "Â" and so on. Completely off.

What am I missing here, anyone?

			

			

			Properties props = new Properties();
			

			props.put("mail.host", host);
			

			Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
			

			Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
			

			message.setFrom(InternetAddress.parse(from)[0]);
			

			message.setSubject(subject);
			

			message.setSentDate(new java.util.Date());
			

			message.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, InternetAddress.parse(to));
			

			message.setContent(body, contenttype);
			

			Transport.send(message);