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Set the Charset of an Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetAttachmentCharset method, which sets the charset parameter of the Content-Type header field for the attachment at a given zero-based index. This example adds a text attachment and sets its charset to utf-8.

Background: For a text attachment, the charset parameter tells the receiving client which character encoding the bytes use, so accented or non-Latin text renders correctly. Setting it explicitly (typically utf-8) removes ambiguity when the attachment contains non-ASCII content — without it, a client may guess wrong and display garbled characters.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the SetAttachmentCharset method, which sets the charset parameter of the
*  Content-Type header field for the attachment at the given zero-based index.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Set attachment charset"

loEmail.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

*  Set the charset of the first attachment (index 0) to utf-8.
lnSuccess = loEmail.SetAttachmentCharset(0,"utf-8")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  The attachment's Content-Type now includes charset="utf-8".
? loEmail.GetMime()

RELEASE loEmail