Send Japanese HTML Email

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VB.NET source code showing how to send a Japanese HTML email with both plain-text and HTML alternatives.


        ' Create a mailman object for sending email.
        Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan()

        ' Any string passed to UnlockComponent automatically begins a 30-day trial.
        Dim success As Boolean
        success = mailman.UnlockComponent("Hello World")
        If (success <> true) Then
            MsgBox(mailman.LastErrorText)
            Exit Sub
        End If

        ' Set the SMTP server.
        mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.earthlink.net"

        ' Create an email object
        Dim email As New Chilkat.Email()

        ' Set the basic email stuff: body, subject, "from", "to"
        ' (This source code file was saved as Unicode (code page 1200).)
        ' Set the plain-text alternative body.
        email.Body = "私はガラスを食べられます"
        ' Now provide an HTML alternative body:
        email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body><b><font color='blue' size='+1'>私はガラスを食べられます</font></b></body></html>")
        email.AddTo("私は", "matt@chilkatsoft.com")
        email.From = "私は <programmer@chilkatsoft.com>"
        email.Subject = "私はガラスを食べられます"

        ' Chilkat automatically recognizes that this email has Japanese characters,
        ' and thus encodes everything as it is needed for the default Japanese encoding
        ' of Shift_JIS.
        ' Also, because Chilkat recognizes the Japanese characters, it adds the appropriate
        ' HTML Meta tag to ensure that the recipient's mail client will correctly interpret
        ' the Japanese HTML.
        ' Set the charset to "Shift_JIS" redundantly...
        email.Charset = "Shift_JIS";
        success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
        If Not success Then
            MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
            Return
        End If

        ' The charset can easily be changed to euc-jp
        ' If the charset changes, Chilkat automaticallly updates the HTML meta tag specifying the charset.
        email.Charset = "euc-jp"
        success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
        If Not success Then
            MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
            Return
        End If

        ' The charset can easily be changed to iso-2022-jp
        email.Charset = "iso-2022-jp"
        success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
        If Not success Then
            MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
            Return
        End If

        ' The charset can easily be changed to utf-8
        email.Charset = "utf-8"
        success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
        If Not success Then
            MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
            Return
        End If

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