Specifies the character sets recognized by the InternetMail class.
| Member Name | Description |
|---|---|
| charsetUnknown | The character set is unknown. |
| charsetDefault | The default character set. This is the same as specifying the character set charsetUTF8. |
| charsetUSASCII | A character set using US-ASCII which defines 7-bit printable characters with values ranging from 20h to 7Eh. An application that uses this character set has the broadest compatibility with most mail servers (MTAs) because it does not require the server to handle 8-bit characters correctly when the message is delivered. This is the most commonly used character set for plain text email messages in the English language and is the default character set used by the class. |
| charsetISO8859_1 | An 8-bit character set for most western European languages such as English, French, Spanish and German. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin1. The Windows code page for this character set is 28591, however Windows code page 1252 (Windows-1252) is typically used to represent this character set in most applications. |
| charsetISO8859_2 | An 8-bit character set for most central and eastern European languages such as Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Romanian. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin2. This character set is similar to Windows code page 1250, however the characters are arranged differently. |
| charsetISO8859_3 | A character set for southern European languages such as Maltese and Esperanto. This character set was also used with the Turkish language, but it was superseded by ISO 8859-9 which is the preferred character set for Turkish. This character set is not widely used in mail messages and it is recommended that you use UTF-8 instead. |
| charsetISO8859_4 | A character set for northern European languages such as Latvian, Lithuanian and Greenlandic. This character set is not widely used in mail messages and it is recommended that you use UTF-8 instead. |
| charsetISO8859_5 | An 8-bit character set for Cyrillic languages such as Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian. The Windows code page for this character set is 28595. This character set is not widely used and it is recommended that you use UTF-8 instead. |
| charsetISO8859_6 | An 8-bit character set for Arabic languages. Note that the application is responsible for displaying text that uses this character set. In particular, any display engine needs to be able to handle the reverse writing direction and analyze the context of the message to correctly combine the glyphs. This character set is not widely used and it is recommended that you use UTF-8 instead. |
| charsetISO8859_7 | An 8-bit character set for the Greek language. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin/Greek. The Windows code page for this character set is 28597. |
| charsetISO8859_8 | An 8-bit character set for the Hebrew language. Note that similar to Arabic, Hebrew uses a reverse writing direction. An application which displays this character should be capable of processing bi-directional text where a single message may include both right-to-left and left-to-right languages, such as Hebrew and English. The Windows code page for this character set is 28598. |
| charsetISO8859_9 | An 8-bit character set for the Turkish language. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin5. The Windows code page for this character set is 28599. |
| charsetISO8859_10 | A character set for the Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish languages. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin-6 and is similar to ISO 8859-4. |
| charsetISO8859_13 | A character set for Baltic languages. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin-7. This character set is similar to ISO 8859-4, except it adds certain Polish characters and does not support Nordic languages. |
| charsetISO8859_14 | A character set for Gaelic languages such as Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin-8. This character set replaced ISO 8859-12 which was never fully implemented. |
| charsetISO8859_15 | A character set for western European languages. This character set is also commonly referred to as Latin-9 and is nearly identical to ISO8859-1 except that it replaces lesser-used symbols with the Euro sign and some letters. |
| charsetISO2022_JP | A multi-byte character encoding for Japanese that is widely used with mail messages. This is a 7-bit encoding where all characters start with ASCII and uses escape sequences to switch to the double-byte character sets. |
| charsetISO2022_KR | A multi-byte character encoding for Korean which encodes both ASCII and Korean double-byte characters. This is a 7-bit encoding which uses the shift in and shift out control characters to switch to the double-byte character set. |
| charsetISO2022_CN | A multi-byte character encoding for Simplified Chinese which encodes both ASCII and Chinese double-byte characters. This is a 7-bit encoding which uses the shift in and shift out control characters to switch to the double-byte character set. |
| charsetKOI8R | A character set for Russian using the Cyrillic alphabet. This character set also covers the Bulgarian language. Most mail messages in the Russian language use this character set or UTF-8 instead of ISO 8859-5, which was never widely adopted. |
| charsetKOI8U | A character set for Ukrainian using the Cyrillic alphabet. This character set is similar to the KOI8-R character set, but replaces certain symbols with Ukrainian letters. Most mail messages in the Ukrainian language use this character set or UTF-8 instead of ISO 8859-5, which was never widely adopted. |
| charsetGB2312 | A multi-byte character encoding which can represent ASCII and simplified Chinese characters. It has been superseded by GB18030, however it remains widely used in China. |
| charsetGB18030 | A Unicode transformation format which can represent all Unicode code points and supports both simplified and traditional Chinese characters. It is backwards compatible with GB2312 and supersedes that character set. |
| charsetBIG5 | A multi-byte character set that supports both ASCII characters and traditional Chinese characters. It is widely used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. It is no longer commonly used in China, which has developed GB18030 as a standard encoding. Note that Microsoft's implementation of Big5 on Windows does not support all of the extensions and is missing certain code points. |
| charsetUTF7 | A 7-bit Unicode Transformation Format that uses variable-length character encoding to represent Unicode text as a stream of ASCII characters that are safe to transport between mail servers that only support 7-bit printable characters. It is primarily used as an alternative to UTF-8 which requires that the mail server support 8-bit text or use quoted-printable encoding. |
| charsetUTF8 | An 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format that uses multibyte character sequences to represent Unicode text. It is backwards compatible with the ASCII character set, however because it uses 8-bit text, it should be encoded using either quoted-printable or base64 encoding to ensure that mail servers that do not support 8-bit characters. |
| charsetUTF16 | A 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format that uses two bytes to represent each Unicode character. Messages that use UTF-16 are commonly encoded using the base64 algorithm. It is recommended that most applications use the UTF-8 character set, which is capable of representing all Unicode characters. |
Namespace: SocketTools
Assembly: SocketTools.InternetMail (in SocketTools.InternetMail.dll)