(C#) Setting the MIME Text Charset (such as utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.)

Demonstrates how setting the Charset property controls the character encoding used for the text body in a MIME message.

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Chilkat.Mime mime = new Chilkat.Mime();

bool success;
success = mime.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial.");
if (success == false) {
    textBox1.Text += mime.LastErrorText + "\r\n";
    return;
}

//  Set the MIME body using some 8bit non-us-ascii characters:
mime.SetBody("á, é, í, ó, ú");

//  Set the Content-Type
mime.ContentType = "text/plain";

//  Set the Content-Transfer-Encoding to "quoted-printable"
//  so it's easy to see the bytes used to encode each character
//  (i.e. it will be easy to see that utf-8 uses 2-bytes for
//  non-us-ascii characters such as "á", whereas a character
//  encoding such as iso-8859-1 will use one byte per character.
mime.Encoding = "quoted-printable";

//  Set the Charset to utf-8
mime.Charset = "utf-8";

//  Examine the MIME:
textBox1.Text += mime.GetMime() + "\r\n";

//  The MIME should look like this:
//  
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

=C3=A1, =C3=A9, =C3=AD, =C3=B3, =C3=BA

//  Now change the Charset to "iso-8859-1"
mime.Charset = "iso-8859-1";

//  Get the MIME again...
textBox1.Text += mime.GetMime() + "\r\n";

//  Now the MIME should look like this:
//  
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

=E1, =E9, =ED, =F3, =FA