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

John Delacour wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for your prompt reply.

The subject line contains Chinese and Japanes characters in UTF8 and the 
platform is Sun Solaries 8.

I've tried Base64 using encode_base64 but in vain. Any clues?

Thanks and regards,
Wing