As stand-alone or as hook-in for the ReRead offline reader, the DOS
program QPARSER.exe tries to tidy up the illegible mess which comes
with so-called "Quoted-Printable" email/attachments (most of all from
M$ Outhouse Exploder and the like or badly installed IIS-SMTPs.)
Available at
www.inti.be/hammer/qparser.zip
"Quoted-Printabel" (QP) _should_ be legible text; but what comes out of
an M$-Void or -Composter produced attachment is an indigestible salad
of linebreaks, missing such, arbitrarily interjected empty lines; and
the QP-encoders of that sort just don't keep to the standards - ISO
character sets are tweaked to what M$ & Corp. consider what suits them
best. And none of the existing QP decoders is even capable to translate
them to the default set of the Net, ISO 8851 (or CodePage 437, the IBM
charset with which about two thirds of all 'puters on earth run
"natively".)
QPARSER allows the use of external, individually composed char remapping
lists/tables, and flexibly reformats linebreaks and paragraphs. So that
the result becomes indeed both quotable and printable.
// Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2004-08-08
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