Perl

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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use chilkat();

$success = 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.

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Set attachment charset");

$email->AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.");

#  Set the charset of the first attachment (index 0) to utf-8.
$success = $email->SetAttachmentCharset(0,"utf-8");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  The attachment's Content-Type now includes charset="utf-8".
print $email->getMime() . "\r\n";