Email header decoding

Dear Group,

I've got a problem with decoding e-mail message subject, which has
been read within usage of Pear_Mail_Mime library.

There are some elements unwelcome in my subject string, such as:

=?ISO-8859-2?Q?My subject.

Especially when subject contains polish characters, i.e.:

=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Temat listu, bardzo wa=BFny, gdy=BF zawi=EAr=B1
p=F3l=B6ki=EA ¿ñ=B1ki, =

What is the easiest method of decoding it into the UTF-8 encoding?
Probably it is a common problem, so where can I find a solution for
it?

Thank you for help and all the best,
Przemek M. Zawada

Re: Email header decoding

On Aug 24, 10:56 am, pmz wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I've got a problem with decoding e-mail message subject, which has
> been read within usage of Pear_Mail_Mime library.
>
> There are some elements unwelcome in my subject string, such as:
>
> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?My subject.
>
> Especially when subject contains polish characters, i.e.:
>
> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Temat listu, bardzo wa=BFny, gdy=BF zawi=EAr=B1
> p=F3l=B6ki=EA ¿ñ=B1ki, =
>
> What is the easiest method of decoding it into the UTF-8 encoding?
> Probably it is a common problem, so where can I find a solution for
> it?
>
> Thank you for help and all the best,
> Przemek M. Zawada

A quick google search came up with the following function:
http://www.greywyvern.com/code/php/iso88592_2utf8

Looking at the PHP manual's utf8_encode method, the comments also
suggested looking into the following functions, but wasn't very
specific about how they could help:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.recode-string.php


I hope that helps you!

Re: Email header decoding

Hello,

on 08/24/2007 12:56 PM pmz said the following:
> I've got a problem with decoding e-mail message subject, which has
> been read within usage of Pear_Mail_Mime library.
>
> There are some elements unwelcome in my subject string, such as:
>
> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?My subject.
>
> Especially when subject contains polish characters, i.e.:
>
> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Temat listu, bardzo wa=BFny, gdy=BF zawi=EAr=B1
> p=F3l=B6ki=EA ¿ñ=B1ki, =
>
> What is the easiest method of decoding it into the UTF-8 encoding?
> Probably it is a common problem, so where can I find a solution for
> it?

That is q-encoding. You need to decode that string and then you can
convert to UTF-8.

Take a look at this MIME parser class that can decode messages with
headers like that:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimeparser


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