Visual FoxPro

Setting the MIME Text Charset (such as utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.)

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Demonstrates how setting the Charset property controls the character encoding used for the text body in a MIME message. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL loMime

*  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
*  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

loMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.Mime')

*  Set the MIME body using some 8bit non-us-ascii characters:
loMime.SetBody("á, é, í, ó, ú")

*  Set the Content-Type
loMime.ContentType = "text/plain"

*  Set the Content-Transfer-Encoding to "quoted-printable";
*  so it's easy to see the bytes used to encode each character
*  (i.e. it will be easy to see that utf-8 uses 2-bytes for 
*  non-us-ascii characters such as "á", whereas a character
*  encoding such as iso-8859-1 will use one byte per character.
loMime.Encoding = "quoted-printable"

*  Set the Charset to utf-8
loMime.Charset = "utf-8"

*  Examine the MIME:
? loMime.GetMime()

*  The MIME should look like this:

*  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
*  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8";
*  
*  =C3=A1, =C3=A9, =C3=AD, =C3=B3, =C3=BA

*  Now change the Charset to "iso-8859-1";
loMime.Charset = "iso-8859-1"

*  Get the MIME again...
? loMime.GetMime()

*  Now the MIME should look like this:

*  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
*  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1";
*  
*  =E1, =E9, =ED, =F3, =FA

RELEASE loMime