Unicode C

Get and Set the Email Subject

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Subject property, which reads or writes the MIME Subject header. When the subject contains non-ASCII characters, Chilkat performs the required MIME header encoding automatically. This example sets a subject and reads it back.

Background: MIME headers were originally restricted to plain ASCII, which is a problem for subjects containing accented letters, emoji, or non-Latin scripts. The solution (RFC 2047) is "encoded-words," where such text is wrapped like =?utf-8?B?...?= so it travels safely through mail systems. You work with the Subject property as ordinary readable text — Chilkat handles the encoding on the way out and the decoding on the way in.

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#include <C_CkEmailW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmailW email;

    //  Demonstrates getting and setting the Email.Subject property, which reads or writes
    //  the MIME Subject header.  Chilkat performs the required MIME header encoding when the
    //  subject contains non-ASCII characters.

    email = CkEmailW_Create();

    CkEmailW_putSubject(email,L"Meeting agenda for Monday");

    wprintf(L"Subject = %s\n",CkEmailW_subject(email));


    CkEmailW_Dispose(email);

    }