Sending mails in different languages using ASP and CDOSYS

Question

I want to send an email using arabic text as subject line.

The code piece converts the special characters into arabic text properly for message body but fails to do so for message subject.

I would like to know what I am missing ?

      Set objCDOSYS = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
      Set objCDOConf = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
      Set objCDOFields = objCDOConf.Fields

      objCDOFields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
      objCDOFields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "127.0.0.1"
      objCDOFields.Update

      Set objCDOSYS.Configuration = objCDOConf
      objCDOSYS.MimeFormatted=True 
      objCDOSYS.BodyPart.Charset = "Windows-1256"

      objCDOSYS.From = Trim(Request.Form("frmSender"))
      objCDOSYS.To = Trim(Request.Form("frmRecipient"))

      objCDOSYS.Subject =Request.Form("frmSubject")
      objCDOSYS.HTMLBody = Trim(Request.Form("frmMessage")) 

      objCDOSYS.HTMLBodyPart.charset = "Windows-1256"
      objCDOSYS.Fields.update

      objCDOSYS.Send
      Set objCDOFields = Nothing
      Set objCDOConf = Nothing
      Set objCDOSYS = Nothing

Answer 1

Changing to the UTF-8 charset is worth a stab:-

objCDOSYS.HTMLBodyPart.charset = "UTF-8"

I think that will result in the kind of encoding Jirapong was trying but CDOSYS will do it for you. Unfortunately I know that it doesn't work for display names in the email addresses.

Answer 2

You may need to use '=?UTF-8?B?' in front of subject and the Arabic base64 encoded string.

objCDOSYS.Subject = "=?UTF-8?B?" + Base64Encode(Request.Form("frmSubject"))

The Base64Encode function can find at - http://nolovelust.com/post/classic-asp-base64-encoder-decoder.aspx

Note: I did try this myself yet. so not 100% sure.

Answer 3

For me the combination of these 4 items worked:

session.codepage=65001
Response.Charset = "utf-8" 
objMessage.HTMLBodyPart.Charset = "utf-8"
objMessage.BodyPart.Charset = "utf-8"