Re : Encode the subject line in MIME header using Perl 5 . 6 my €0 . 02
[email protected] (Nick Ing-Simmons)
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Wing <[email protected]> writes: >"John Delacour" <[email protected]> wrote in message >news:p06230908bfd76273ea14@[10.0.0.1]... >> 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 some Chinese or >Japanese characters in UTF8. Can they be encoded as UTF8 with MIME:Base64? Yes. It would look like =?UTF-8?B?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?= where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx part is output of encode_base64 The tricky part (for perl5.6) is to get UTF-8 encoded octet sequence that is input to encode_base64. I have added a euro sign '€' to subject of this mail so my (perl5.8) mail client does UTF-8 thing. But it will use Q style as that is shorter in this case. > >Thanks, >Wing