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Set a MIME Body from Plain Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromPlainText method, which sets the body as plain text. The only argument is the text. For ASCII input Chilkat uses text/plain with 7bit encoding; for non-ASCII it selects an appropriate charset and encoding.

Background: This is the simplest way to give a MIME entity a text body — Chilkat picks a sensible Content-Type and transfer encoding for you based on the content. Plain ASCII stays as 7bit with no charset, while text containing accented or non-Latin characters gets a charset (typically UTF-8) and a suitable encoding so it survives transmission intact. It is the text counterpart to SetBodyFromHtml and SetBodyFromXml.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the Mime.SetBodyFromPlainText method, which sets the body as plain text.  The only
-- argument is the text.  For ASCII, Chilkat sets Content-Type: text/plain and a 7bit transfer
-- encoding; for non-ASCII it selects an appropriate charset and encoding.

local mime = chilkat.Mime.new()

local success = mime:set_body_from_plain_text("Hello, this is a plain-text message body.")
if not success then
    print(mime.last_error_text)
    return
end

local mimeText = mime:get_mime()
if not mime.last_method_success then
    print(mime.last_error_text)
    return
end

print(mimeText)