UTF-8 in receiver name - HttpResponseException: Unsupported Media Type

[greglebonniec]

Issue Summary

When I try to send an email to a receiver with a special character in his name (character 'é'), I receive "org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException: Unsupported Media Type".

The http response is :
{"errors":[{"message":"Unrecognized UTF8 Byte at position 121","field":null,"help":"http://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Web_API_v3/Mail/errors.html#-Encoding-Errors"}]}"

If I do the same action with Curl, everything is OK.

Steps to Reproduce

1. send a template with java library
2. set the receiver name to "Grégory" (it is OK with "Gregory")

Technical details:

• sendgrid-java 3.0.2
• Java Version: 1.7.0_80

[thinkingserious]

I believe these are related issues:
sendgrid/java-http-client#4
sendgrid/java-http-client#5

Please follow along there for updates. Those are on our list of fixes to implement. Thanks!

[DanailMinchev]

@thinkingserious could you please tell me when the fix will be merged? I am forced to use older 2.x version of the lib, because of this bug.
IMHO support for non latin characters for emails is important.

Thank you

[thinkingserious]

Hi @DanailMinchev,

With any luck, that change will be merged by end of day today. Thanks for checking in!