Re: decoding UTF-8

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:18:47AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 14-03-2016, at 17h 30'55", Jon LaBadie wrote about "decoding UTF-8" > > I frequently find headers (mostly Subject, but also From/To) > > that I assume are some representation form f

Re: decoding UTF-8

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:23:37PM +0100, Gabriel Philippe wrote: > > Quite funny, I spent some time on it yesterday... > > This is rfc2047 encoding [1]. It can probably use other charsets (not > only UTF-8). > > The best way I found is to pipe it through perl -MEncode -ne 'print >

Re: decoding UTF-8

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I frequently find headers (mostly Subject, but also From/To) > that I assume are some representation form for a UTF-8 encoded > string as they start with "=?UTF-8?" and end with "=?= ". > For example: > > To:

Re: decoding UTF-8

can encode and decode this with base64: # echo "something" | base64 # c29tZXRoaW5nCg== #echo "Z3VuZGk=" | base64 -d gundi Ionel On 14-03-2016, at 17h 30'55", Jon LaBadie wrote about "decoding UTF-8" > I frequently find headers (mostly Subject, but

Re: decoding UTF-8

On 2016-03-14 at 17:30, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Is my assumption correct? What is the representation called? Is there a > tool to regain the original string? I believe my video system can display > the larger character set. You are correct, it's just the UTF-8 encoding. There is a recent thread

decoding UTF-8

I frequently find headers (mostly Subject, but also From/To) that I assume are some representation form for a UTF-8 encoded string as they start with "=?UTF-8?" and end with "=?= ". For example: To: =?UTF-8?B?Z3VuZGk=?= Is my assumption correct? What is the representation