I don't really know how it works, but this is what I did
ByteArrayInputStream byter = new ByteArrayInputStream(body.getBytes());
mail = new MimeMessage(session, byter); //this is a change, the
EmailServices.java code uses this constructor MimeMessage(session)
with one 1 arg
mail.addHeaderLine("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"); //this
new constructor defaults to text/plain so you have to feed it
text/html here
//then later I turned off this
/*
mail.setText(body, "UTF-8", "html"); // third arg is actually
contentType.subString something or other
mail.saveChanges(); //this was mangling my chars :(
*/
since I'm thrilled about this, I thought I'd share
I'm on 64bits, I wonder if that makes a difference.
