On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:03:32 +0100, Henning Møller-Nielsen
<henning(_dot_)nielsen(_at_)datagraf(_dot_)dk> said:
> Hi
> I am new to this list, but I have tried to search through the
> archives, to no avail. I hope you can help me.
> I am trying to send a Unicode character in an e-mail subject line,
> without success.
> Does anyone know how to encode it? I have been trying my luck with
> quoted-printable, like
> =?UTF-8?Q?=E5=B8=AE?=
> or
> =?UTF-8?Q?=5E2E?=
> or
> =?UTF-8?B?Xi4?=
> But all I can possible get in my e-mail client is a question mark
> or possibly the string '&:' (which I believe is telling me I am
> way off course).
> I have no trouble sending Unicode characters in the e-mail body,
> using the UTF-7 character set - the character I am trying to send
> above looks like this in the body source
> +Xi4-
You want Encode::MIME::Header. AFAIK you'll need perl 5.8 to use it.
UTF-7 is in general regarded as legacy, you should avoid it.
--
andreas
