Hi Monks,
I am trying to send a mail in Chinese, using Net::SMTP. All the Chinese is in UTF-8 format, so I don't need a special encoding. It's enough to add "charset=utf-8" and the body of the mail is sent correctly (example below).
The problem is that although the body is sent correctly, the subject doesn't known that it is supposed to be in utf-8.
If you run the code below, you should get a mail with malformed letters in the subject and perfect Chinese in the body 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::SMTP;
my $SMTP_HOST = 'localhost';
my $from = 'aaa@hotmail.com';
my $to = 'bbb@gmail.com';

my $msg = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
        . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
        . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
        . "From: $from\n"
        . "To: $to\n"
        . "Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:47:22 +0200\n"
        ##the subject
        . "Subject: δΈ­εη©ζ΅δΈιθ΄­θεδΌ\n\n"
        ##the body
        ."δΈ­εη©ζ΅δΈιθ΄­θεδΌ\n";

#Creating the SMTP object
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new( $SMTP_HOST,'Debug' => 1);

#Sending the data
$smtp->mail($from);
$smtp->recipient($to);
$smtp->data ($msg);
$smtp->quit;

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Does anyone have any idea how I can "tell" the subject it is also under utf-8?
Thanks a lot,
Guy Naamati

P.S. For some reason the utf-8/Chinese characters get changed when you copy paste them to VI. If you have this problem you can first copy the chars to a notepad and then to VI.

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