Send email with Thai/ Chinese / Japanese character

[Benoit]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to send email in LabVIEW with Asian character.

No matter what I try, only the standard character are sent.

Is anyone succeed in this?

Thanks

Benoit

 

[JKSH]

15 minutes ago, Benoit said:

I am trying to send email in LabVIEW with Asian character.

What encoding do you use for those characters? LabVIEW's email VIs send emails assuming the UTF-8 encoding (http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361P-01/lvcomm/smtp_client/ ); you might need to encode your Asian characters in UTF-8 first.

I haven't tried this myself, but you could also try calling the Set Headers VI (http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361P-01/lvcomm/smtp_set_headers/ ) and set the Content-Type header to match your non-UTF-8 encoding (https://www.emailonacid.com/blog/article/email-development/the_importance_of_content-type_character_encoding_in_html_emails/ ).

Edited November 26, 2018 by JKSH

[Benoit]

I am actually trying to figure out how to use the exact information you proposed to me.

Did you ever succeed? If yes, do you have an example?

i think the formatting of the array with the information to write as input is the problem I have.

Benoit

[JKSH]

First, how do you input the Asian characters into your program?

Edited November 26, 2018 by JKSH

[Benoit]

Two way. User input or from files.

I see per example in Hex 4 character in Thai...

1E0E 1E0E 310E 1E0E = พพัพ

How do I send that by email in HTML or even by plain text.

Thanks

Benoit

[Benoit]

Should it looks like this?

[JKSH]

I just did a quick test. It looks like LabVIEW assumes that the email text is encoded in your PC's default 8-bit encoding. Then, LabVIEW automatically tries to convert the text to UTF-8.

I think this means the only way to send Japanese emails through LabVIEW is to configure your whole PC to use Japanese 8-bit encoding and/or use the Japanese version of LabVIEW.

(I'll have to leave for now, sorry. I'll try some more tests tonight to see if anything else works)

 

[Benoit]

Thanks for your help. I'll try some stuff on my side as well.

Benoit

[Benoit]

Well after some research, this is what i came to.

Sending the email in html format with the following VI to transform Unicode from LabVIEW to HTML character.

I think it will work in most of the case.

Benoit

PS: Thanks for your help.

Unicode to html.vi

[JKSH]

16 hours ago, Benoit said:

Sending the email in html format with the following VI to transform Unicode from LabVIEW to HTML character.

I think it will work in most of the case.

Yes, that sounds like a solid solution. Good thinking, and congrats!