From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2006-05-02T00:23:14+09:00
Subject: Re: How to decode the following string

Rich Ard wrote:
> hello,
> 
> when i work on a pop mail client program, i met the following string at 
> the Subject field:
> 
> Subject: =?GBK?B?dnNvYy5jbiDXorLhs8m5piE==?=
> Subject: =?GB2312?B?RndkOiCyu7rD0uLLvKOsvfHM7LLF1qq1wMTjtcTTys/k?=
> 
> i know they are encoded chinese words. but anybody can advise on how to 
> decode them?

They are RFC 2047 encoded words. I wrote a small lib to decode them,
this might be the latest version:

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/101949

Email me off line if not, and I'll send it to you.

Something like it really, REALLY should be part of one of the ruby
mail libraries... even Net::IMAP if necessary.

Cheers,
Sam