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"=20"

Tom Allison

2005-07-25, 10:03 pm

I find these a lot on email and I know it's some encoding problem somewhere.

How are you supposed to handle this so things come out clean?
besides doing this:
$message =~ s/=20//sg
(or was it 'm', I'll have to look it up)

Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan

2005-07-25, 10:03 pm

On Jul 25, Tom Allison said:

> I find these a lot on email and I know it's some encoding problem somewhere.
>
> How are you supposed to handle this so things come out clean?
> besides doing this:
> $message =~ s/=20//sg
> (or was it 'm', I'll have to look it up)

Well, the /m and /s modifiers are useless there (since there's no '.' or
'^' or '$' in the regex). But =20 is like %20 in a URL -- it represents a
space. As far as I can remember, it's another form of encoding
characters. You'd decode it in the same way:

$str =~ s/=([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/chr hex $1/eg;

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Thomas Bätzler

2005-07-26, 4:05 am

Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
> I find these a lot on email and I know it's some encoding
> problem somewhere.

That's the quoted-printable encoding for MIME mails.

Of course you can handle it manually like japhy suggested,
but the proper way would be to use MIME::Parser to handle
all the different encodings.

HTH,
Thomas

Tom Allison

2005-07-26, 9:00 am

Thomas Bätzler wrote:
> Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> That's the quoted-printable encoding for MIME mails.
>
> Of course you can handle it manually like japhy suggested,
> but the proper way would be to use MIME::Parser to handle
> all the different encodings.
>
> HTH,
> Thomas
>

That's discouraging.
This is the output from Email::MIME objects....

I'll have to check but this might be another bug report.

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