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 fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True)

set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email2")

qEncoded = email.BEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","iso-8859-1")
outFile.WriteLine(qEncoded)

qEncoded = email.BEncodeBytes("magnà el véder","utf-8")
outFile.WriteLine(qEncoded)

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

outFile.Close