MailMessage.SubjectEncoding Property

Definition

Gets or sets the encoding used for the subject content for this email message.

C#
public System.Text.Encoding? SubjectEncoding { get; set; }
C#
public System.Text.Encoding SubjectEncoding { get; set; }

Property Value

An Encoding that was used to encode the Subject property.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates setting the SubjectEncoding property.

C#
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to);
message.Body = "This is a test email 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;

Remarks

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

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1

See also