title: Scala Play 2.4.x handling extended characters through anorm (MySQL) to Java Mail
body: <p>I was under the impression that UTF-8 was the answer to everything :0 </p>
  
  <p>Problem: Using Play's idiomatic form handling to go from a web page (basic HTML Text Area Input field) to a MySQL database through the Anorm abstraction layer (so all properly <code>escaped</code>) and then reading the database to gather that data and create an email using the JavaMail API's to send HTML email with alternate characters (accented characters like é for example. (I'd post more but I suspect we might get strange artifacts here as well -- I'll try that in a comment below perhaps)</p>
  
  <p>I can use a moderate set of characters and create a TEXT email (edited via Atom and placed into the stream directly at the code level) and it comes through as an email with all the characters I've chosen in tact. </p>
  
  <p>I have not yet systematically worked through the characters I was just using a relatively random sampling as an initial test. </p>
  
  <p>I place the same set of characters into a text field and try to save them to the database and I can only save about 1 in 5 or less of them. </p>
  
  <p>The errors look like this:</p>
  
  <p><code>SQLException: Incorrect string value: '\xC4\x93\x0D\x0A\x0D\x0A...' for column 'content' at row 1</code> </p>
  
  <p>I suspect I'm about to learn a ton of new information about either Play and/or UTF-8 or HTML or some part of the chain where this is going off the rails. </p>
  
  <p>My question then is this: Is there an idiomatic Play example of how to handle UTF-8 end to end through Anorm and into Java Mail? </p>
  
  <p>(I think I kinda expected it to be "built-in" but then I expected a LOT more to be baked into the core product as well...)</p>
  
  <p>I want/need both a TEXT and and HTML path for the email portion. (I can write BOTH and they work fine -- the problem is moving alternate characters though the channels as indicated above). </p>