On 1/12/08, Neil Gunton <neil(_at_)nilspace(_dot_)com> wrote:
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.
use Encode;
use Encode::MIME::Header;
decode("MIME-Header", $bytes);
to get the Unicode strings for these MIME encoded characters.
Does anybody have any clues as to how to convert strings like this into
something more usable - e.g. HTML character entities?
If you want to turn them into HTML entities, you can say:
encode("ascii", decode("MIME-Header", $bytes), Encode::FB_HTMLCREF);
HTH
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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
