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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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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// 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 = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Set attachment charset';

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

// Set the charset of the first attachment (index 0) to utf-8.
try {
    $email->SetAttachmentCharset(0, 'utf-8');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// The attachment's Content-Type now includes charset="utf-8".
echo $email->GetMime(), "\n";