(Apologies if you see a duplicate - I think I may have originally sent
this to the wrong list)
Hi all,
I am somewhat experienced with Perl in general, but absolutely no
experience dealing with UTF-8. I have a community journals website which
allows updates from users via email. I'm having trouble with emails that
contain Chinese characters encoded (I think) as UTF-8. The strings look
like this:
=?UTF-8?B?5qGQ5LmhLCBUb25neGlhbmc6IEJlaW5nIGEgJ2hhbg==?= =?UTF-8?B?dHUn?=
When I read this text from a file, using my perl script, and then save
it into MySQL, it comes out on the website looking literally like the
above. I can't seem to get perl to "do" anything with it in terms of
conversions to a format that looks like chinese characters when
displayed on the Web.
Does anybody have any clues as to how to convert strings like this into
something more usable - e.g. HTML character entities?
I'm using stock perl 5.8.8 from Debian Etch.
Thanks!
/Neil