Sending Plain Text Email in Unicode

This mini-tutorial is for people with the following needs:

• You need to send email containing multilingual, Unicoded text;
• The email is to be plain text rather than HTML;
• You use the CDONTS NewMail Object.

So, for example, you have an Access 2000 database storing product descriptions in multiple languages (say, Japanese, Korean, and Danish). Since Access 2000 is naturally Unicode-enabled, an ASP script can extract those descriptions and pass the information to the user via email upon request.

All that is required is to specify two additional parameters for the NewMail object -- one to set MIME as the mail format to use, the other to set Unicode as the locale. So lets say you've named your New Mail object objCDO, you would then add:

objCDO.MailFormat = 0
objCDO.SetLocaleIDs(65001)


65001, of course, is the code page for Unicode character set.

That's it!