Frank da Cruz scripsit: > Is anybody aware of a Unix stdin/stdout application (suitable for > piping) that converts a text stream from one character encoding to > another based on its MIME headers (as you would find, for example, in > an email message)?
The following script is not bulletproof, but it should work in most cases: #!/bin/sh TMP=/tmp/mime-recode-$$ cat >$TMP CHARSET=`perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /^Content-Type:.*charset="([^"]*)/i' <$TMP` iconv -f $CHARSET <$TMP -- Winter: MIT, John Cowan Keio, INRIA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Issue lots of Drafts. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan So much more to understand! http://www.reutershealth.com Might simplicity return? (A "tanka", or extended haiku)
