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VB.NET source code showing how to send an email with Russian characters.

        ' 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).)
        email.Body = "На берегу пустынных волн"
        email.Subject = "На берегу пустынных волн"
        email.AddTo("пустынных волн", "support@chilkatsoft.com")
        email.From = "На берегу <programmer@chilkatsoft.com>"

        ' Chilkat automatically recognizes that this email has Russian characters,
        ' and thus encodes everything as it is needed for the default Russian encoding
        ' of iso-8859-5.
        ' It is possible to verify this by examining the full MIME text of the email:
        MessageBox.Show(email.GetMime())

        ' The charset can easily be changed to koi8-r
        email.Charset = "koi8-r"

        ' Display the full MIME text of the email using koi8-r:
        MessageBox.Show(email.GetMime())

        ' Send the Russian email...
        success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
        If success Then
            MessageBox.Show("Sent email!")
        Else
            MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
        End If