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MailMessage.SubjectEncoding Property

.NET Framework 4.5

Gets or sets the encoding used for the subject content for this e-mail message.

Namespace: System.Net.Mail
Assembly: System (in System.dll)

public Encoding SubjectEncoding { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: System.Text.Encoding
An Encoding that was used to encode the Subject property.

Remarks

If a mail agent has difficulty with a SubjectEncoding of Unicode, use UTF8.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates setting the SubjectEncoding property.

C++

MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to);
message.Body = "This is a test e-mail message sent by an application. ";
// Include some non-ASCII characters in body and subject. 
string someArrows = new string(new char[] {'\u2190', '\u2191', '\u2192', '\u2193'});
message.Body += Environment.NewLine + someArrows;
message.BodyEncoding =  System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
message.Subject = "test message 1" + someArrows;
message.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Platforms

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

MailMessage Class

System.Net.Mail Namespace

BodyEncoding

HeadersEncoding

System.Net.Mime.TransferEncoding

System.Text.Encoding

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