On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:18:59AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > Thus spake Andy Spiegl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Is there a unix tool (or another method) to convert something like this > > Subject: Para =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Carlos_Lavalle_?= > > into this > > Subject: Para José Carlos Lavalle > > The encoded format is called "quoted-printable", and there should be > utilities for it. I've seen algorithms in Perl for it, as well as > native functions in PHP (though it'd be a little hackish to use a PHP > shell script). Just search for 'quoted-printable decode' and I'm sure > something will turn up :-)
Note that it is not always encoded with the QP-algorithm. The other alternative, Base64-encoding is very common nowadays. Especially in subject-lines. See further RFC2047. /magnus
