VB Forum / Database Access / November 2006

Hello:

According to this document:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms526970.aspx

we should be able to set the charset to be used in the CDO message fields.
The following code does not work though (sorry about being in c#, I was
redirected to this newsgroup):

---------------- CODE -------------------

           CDO.MessageClass message = new CDO.MessageClass();

           message.From = "\"€€€ euro\" <example@example.com>";
           message.To = "\"ホテラ japonese\" <example@example.com>";
           message.CC = "\"ascii\" <example@example.com>";
           message.Subject = "ホテラ";

           // This next line sets the character set for the message header
fields to utf-8.
           message.BodyPart.Charset = "UTF-8";

           // Print Message Stream
           
MessageBox.Show(message.GetStream().ReadText((int)ADODB.StreamReadEnum.adReadAll));

---------------- CODE -------------------

that produces the following output:

---------------- OUTPUT -------------------

thread-index: AccOJ48PNdWfi9koTGOIWkHWxIPvnw==
Thread-Topic: =?UTF-8?B?44Ob44OG44Op?=
From: =?UTF-8?B?4oKs4oKs4oKsIGV1cm8=?= <example@example.com>
To: "??? japonese" <example@example.com>
Cc: "ascii" <example@example.com>
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?44Ob44OG44Op?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
    charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962

---------------- OUTPUT -------------------

As we can see in the output, the charset is used in the subject but is
ignored on some of the "addresses" fields. It seams there is some processing
by CDO to find out if it is required to use the charset encoding instead of
just always using the selected. Althouth the result is the same in the case
where only ascii characters are used, in the case where unicode japonese
characters are used it results in a problem.

Are we doing anything wrong? :|

Best Regards,
João Nóbrega.