Posted by Sandman on 07/14/06 17:27

In article <2rifb2lfk02tmcm8g080ivel0uk7brnbm9@4ax.com>,
Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:48:47 +0200, Sandman <mr@sandman.net> wrote:
>
> >Maybe it's me who is misunderstanding this, but isn't this string in
> >quoted printable:
> >
> > "OLED & =?ISO-8859-1?Q?br=E4nsleceller?="
> >
> >It's found in the Subject: header in a usenet message (i.e. not in a
> >mail) which had these headers:
> >
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> >
> >So, ok - it isn't quoted printable, or?
>
> Not quoted-printable; see RFC 2047 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
> Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text

Aha - gotcha. Any idea on how to decode it to a 8bit string?


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