Posted by d on 10/02/21 11:39

<chris_fieldhouse@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a script for processing emails,
> The script finds email sent to a particular alias, grabs the body text
> of the email and stores it into a database.
>
> Problem is that certain character like '_' sometimes get stored as =5F,
> and some email clients seem to add in =0D encoded characters.
>

[snippy snip snip]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

It's a type of MIME encoding called "quoted printable". Read up about it -
it's really quite simple to encode/decode.

dave

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