Visual Basic 6.0
Visual Basic 6.0
Set the Charset of an Email
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Charset property, which represents the main charset of the email, such as utf-8, iso-8859-1, or Shift_JIS. Chilkat stores text internally as Unicode; this property mainly controls how the body text is converted to bytes and labeled when MIME is generated. This example sets the charset to utf-8 and prints the resulting MIME.
Background: Email is transmitted as bytes, but text can contain characters from many languages. A charset (character encoding) is the rule that maps characters to bytes. The email's MIME declares its charset in the
Content-Type header (e.g. text/plain; charset="utf-8") so the receiving client can correctly turn the bytes back into readable text. utf-8 is the modern default because it can represent virtually every character; using the wrong charset is what produces "mojibake" (garbled characters).Chilkat Visual Basic 6.0 Downloads
' Demonstrates the Email.Charset property, which controls the main charset
' used when the email's MIME is generated (e.g. utf-8, iso-8859-1, Shift_JIS).
Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
email.Subject = "Charset example"
email.Body = "This email body will be labeled with the utf-8 charset."
' Set the main charset.
email.Charset = "utf-8"
Debug.Print "Charset = " & email.Charset
' The generated MIME labels the body with the utf-8 charset.
Debug.Print email.GetMime()