> From: Martin Jespersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:00:41 +0200
>
> Hi all
>
> i have written an sms forward filter in perl that allows me to trigger an s
> ms message to me if a
> mail matches my criteria.
>
> i then send an sms including the sender of the mail and the subject line.
>
> Now my problem is this:
>
> I live in denmark and thus it happens pretty often that a subject line incl
> udes non-standard ascii
> characters.
>
> subject lines with non-standard ascci characters are iso-8859-1 encoded, ex
> ample follows:
>
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=E5_min_skat_-_jeg_g=E5r_til_afdelingsm=F8de_i?=
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Bredgade_nu_-_jeg_ringer_senere=2E_Kys_til_dig_fra_mig?=
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?_=2AS=2A?=
>
> this subject actually reads:
>
> N� min skat - jeg g�r til afdelingsm�de iBredgade nu - jeg ringer senere. Kys
> til dig fra mig*S*
>
> (if this looks weird don't worry -it's danish :)
>
> ofcourse this looks pretty silly in an sms message s� what i would like is a
> way to convert this
> back to ascii
I assume you mean you want to convert it back to iso-58859-1.
I did this in tcl a while back. It's actually fairly simple, ?charset?Q?text?
means that 'text' is encoded into ascii using quoted printable. quoted
printable basically just says that '=dd' should be replaced with the code in
hex.
I think the actual conversion is a one liner in perl...something along the
lines of 's/=(..)/chr(hex($1))/eg' (Note this is untested.)
Chris
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