# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-20 00:30:35 -0700:
> When parsing messages using python's libraries email and mailbox, the
> subject is often encoded using some kind of = notation. Apparently, the
> encoding used in this notation is specified like =?iso-8859-2?Q?=... or
> =?iso-8859-2?B?=.
That's RFC 2047 encoding, both examples introduce an ISO8859-2
string, the first variant says it's ascii-ized using
"Q"uoted-Printable, the other says the string is "B"ase64-encoded.
> Is there a python library function to decode such a
> subject, returning a unicode string? The use would be like
>
> human_readable = cool_library.decode_equals(message['Subject'])
quoting from http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.Header.html
>>> from email.Header import decode_header
>>> decode_header('=?iso-8859-1?q?p=F6stal?=')
[('p\xf6stal', 'iso-8859-1')]
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