Q-Encoding

The Chilkat Email component automatically "Q" and "B" encodes header fields as necessary. However, the email object provides utility methods for encoding manually, if needed for some unforeseen reason.

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LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL lcQEncoded

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email2')

lcQEncoded = loEmail.QEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","iso-8859-1")
? lcQEncoded

lcQEncoded = loEmail.QEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","utf-8")
? lcQEncoded

*  The output of this program is:
*  =?iso-8859-1?Q?magn=E0_el_v=E9der?=
*  =?utf-8?Q?magn=C3=A0_el_v=C3=A9der?=