B-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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Dim email As New ChilkatEmail2

Dim qEncoded As String

qEncoded = email.BEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","iso-8859-1")
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & qEncoded & vbCrLf
Text1.Refresh

qEncoded = email.BEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","utf-8")
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & qEncoded & vbCrLf
Text1.Refresh

'  The output of this program is:
'  =?iso-8859-1?B?bWFnbuAgZWwgdulkZXI=?=
'  =?utf-8?B?bWFnbsOgIGVsIHbDqWRlcg==?=