MailItem.InternetCodepage Property

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Returns or sets a Long that determines the Internet code page used by the item. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.InternetCodepage

expression   A variable that represents a MailItem object.

Remarks

The Internet code page defines the text encoding scheme used by the item.

The following table lists the values that are supported by the InternetCodePage property.

Name Character Set Code Page Arabic (ISO) iso-8859-6 28596 Arabic (Windows) windows-1256 1256 Baltic (ISO) iso-8859-4 28594 Baltic (Windows) windows-1257 1257 Central European (ISO) iso-8859-2 28592 Central European (Windows) windows-1250 1250 Chinese Simplified (GB2312) gb2312 936 Chinese Simplified (HZ) hz-gb-2312 52936 Chinese Traditional (Big5) big5 950 Cyrillic (ISO) iso-8859-5 28595 Cyrillic (KOI8-R) koi8-r 20866 Cyrillic (KOI8-U) koi8-u 21866 Cyrillic (Windows) windows-1251 1251 Greek (ISO) iso-8859-7 28597 Greek (Windows) windows-1253 1253 Hebrew (ISO-Logical) iso-8859-8-i 38598 Hebrew (Windows) windows-1255 1255 Japanese (EUC) euc-jp 51932 Japanese (JIS) iso-2022-jp 50220 Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) csISO2022JP 50221 Japanese (Shift-JIS) iso-2022-jp 932 Korean ks_c_5601-1987 949 Korean (EUC) euc-kr 51949 Latin 3 (ISO) iso-8859-3 28593 Latin 9 (ISO) iso-8859-15 28605 Thai (Windows) windows-874 874 Turkish (ISO) iso-8859-9 28599 Turkish (Windows) windows-1254 1254 Unicode (UTF-7) utf-7 65000 Unicode (UTF-8) utf-8 65001 US-ASCII us-ascii 20127 Vietnamese (Windows) windows-1258 1258 Western European (ISO) iso-8859-1 28591 Western European (Windows) Windows-1252 1252

The following table lists the code pages Microsoft recommends that you use for the best compatiblity with older e-mail systems.

Name Character Set Code Page Arabic (Windows) windows-1256 1256 Baltic (ISO) iso-8859-4 28594 Central European (ISO) iso-8859-2 28592 Chinese Simplified (GB2312) gb2312 936 Chinese Traditional (Big5) big5 950 Cyrillic (KOI8-R) koi8-r 20866 Cyrillic (Windows) windows-1251 1251 Greek (ISO) iso-8859-7 28597 Hebrew (Windows) windows-1255 1255 Japanese (JIS) iso-2022-jp 50220 Korean ks_c_5601-1987 949 Thai (Windows) windows-874 874 Turkish (ISO) iso-8859-9 28599 Unicode (UTF-8) utf-8 65001 US-ASCII us-ascii 20127 Vietnamese (Windows) windows-1258 1258 Western European (ISO) iso-8859-1 28591

Example

The following Microsoft Visual Basic/Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example displays the sender name of the current e-mail item if its Internet code page value is 1256. This value corresponds to the Internet code page value for Arabic text.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub FindArabicUser()
    'Tells if the sender of the current item used the Arabic codepage
    Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
    Const cstArabic As Long = 1256
    
    Set objMail = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
    If objMail.InternetCodePage = cstArabic Then
        MsgBox objMail.SenderName & " uses an Arabic code page."
    End If
    Set objMail = Nothing
End Sub

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