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Mikael
Mikael

Reputation: 1319

Chilkat CkEmail how to detect encoding properly?

I use Chilkat component. I faced with a problem. I have an email mime string. There is a html body. In most cases it is Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable. I need to get html body and show it readable. I do it like this, php code: 

$data = new CkByteData();
$this->ckEmail->GetMbHtmlBody($this->ckEmail->charset(), $data);
$body = $data->getBytes();

Seems in most cases it works. But sometime it shows unreadable chars. I checked that $this->ckEmail->charset() returned 'utf-8', but when I tried 'iso-8859-1' it became work. I am confused here with these encodings. Do I need to detect the encoding of html body (or text body) so then show it correctly using GetMbHtmlBody ? How to make it well ? I want to show all characters correctly with any encoding.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 294

Answers (1)

jstedfast
jstedfast

Reputation: 38618

If the mail client that generated the message did it properly, then the charset parameter on the text/html Content-Type header will be correct and you'll be able to use that.

That is a big "if", however, since mail is notoriously broken in the real world and you often have to detect the charset in the HTML content of the text/html MIME part and use that instead.

Upvotes: 1

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