Re: Encode the subject line in MIME header using Perl 5.6

At 12:42 am +0800 28/12/05, wing wrote:

>I need to encode the subject line in a MIME header in UTF8 (something like
>Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?=). I know that
>this can be done by using Encode in Perl 5.8. However, in my production
>environment, we can only use Perl 5.6 at this moment.
>
>Is there anywhere to do the encoding in Perl 5.6? I would appreciate if you
>can provide an example to show how to do it.

What range of characters do you need to encode and what operating 
system are you using?  The MIME encoding is no problem with 
MIME::Base64 but what is the encoding of the text you start with?

JD