japanese email subject encoding

Question

Aparently, encoding japanese emails is somewhat challenging, which I am slowly discovering myself. In case there are any experts (even those with limited experience will do)

Answer 1

I have some experience composing and sending email in japanese...Normally you have to beware what encoding used for operating system and how you store your japanese strings! My Mail objects are normally encoded as follows:

    string s = "V‚µ‚¢ŠwK–@‚Ì‚²’ñˆÄ"; // Our japanese are shift-jis encoded, so it appears like garbled
    MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
    message.BodyEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-2022-jp");
    message.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-2022-jp");
    message.Subject = s.ToEncoding(Encoding.GetEncoding("Shift-Jis")); // Change the encoding to whatever your source is
    message.Body = s.ToEncoding(Encoding.GetEncoding("Shift-Jis")); // Change the encoding to whatever your source is

Then i have an extension method to which does the conversion for me:

public static string ToEncoding(this string s, Encoding targetEncoding)
        {   
            return s == null ? null : targetEncoding.GetString(Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(s)); //1252 is the windows OS codepage            
        }