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VB.NET
Set the Charset of an Attachment
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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.Chilkat VB.NET Downloads
Dim success As Boolean = False
' Demonstrates the SetAttachmentCharset method, which sets the charset parameter of the
' Content-Type header field for the attachment at the given zero-based index.
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.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 = False) Then
Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
Exit Sub
End If
' The attachment's Content-Type now includes charset="utf-8".
Debug.WriteLine(email.GetMime())