MailMessage.BodyEncoding Property

Note: This property is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

Gets or sets the encoding used to encode the message body.

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

public:
property Encoding^ BodyEncoding {
	Encoding^ get ();
	void set (Encoding^ value);
}
/** @property */
public Encoding get_BodyEncoding ()

/** @property */
public void set_BodyEncoding (Encoding value)

public function get BodyEncoding () : Encoding

public function set BodyEncoding (value : Encoding)

Property Value

An Encoding applied to the contents of the Body.

The value specified for the BodyEncoding property sets the character set field in the Content-Type header. The default character set is "us-ascii".

If you set the BodyEncoding property to UTF8, Unicode, or UTF32, the Framework selects a TransferEncoding of Base64 for this MailMessage.

The following code example demonstrates creating a mail message that uses UTF8 encoding.

MailMessage^ message = gcnew 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 = gcnew String(gcnew array<wchar_t>{L'\u2190', 
    L'\u2191', L'\u2192', L'\u2193'});
message->Body += Environment::NewLine + someArrows;
message->BodyEncoding = System::Text::Encoding::UTF8;
message->Subject = "test message 1" + someArrows;
message->SubjectEncoding = System::Text::Encoding::UTF8;

Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

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

.NET Framework

Supported in: 2.0

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