From: Mark Guzman <segfault@...>
Date: 2008-03-08T14:53:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ?ISO-8859-1?Q? from IMAP server

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Not messed up, just encoded to work with SMTP. The mail protocol wasn't=20
really designed with i18n in mind, so it doesn't support unicode or=20
anything other than the regular latin charset for the header items. The=20
body is usually handled as MIME, so it get's encoded to avoid issues.

What your seeing is an encoding applied to the mail headers. the mail=20
client needs to do the conversion to something readable/usable by it.=20
The first portion specifies the character set encoding used. The Q=20
specifies the encoding method used.

I'd suggest reading the rfc's on mail handing and internationalization=20
of mail headers.
hth.
  --mg

Maria Almar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an encoding problem when a want to examine my mails from an=20
> IMAP server.
> Strings with "special characters" are returned with the=20
> "?ISO-8859-1?Q?" prefix and special characters are messed up ("=C3=A9" =

> becomes "=3DE9")
>
> Do I have to call IMAP with special parameters ?
> Or can I convert this string afterward ?
>
> # Login to the Imap server
> imap =3D Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com', 993, true)
> imap.login(name, password)
> # Examine the INBOX box
> imap.examine("INBOX")
> # Fetch a single message
> msg =3D imap.uid_fetch([123], ['ENVELOPE'])[0]
> puts msg.attr["ENVELOPE"].subject
>
> =3D> =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Invitation_to_join_XXX_from_Nicolas_F=3DE9tiou?=3D=

>
> I'm on Leopard, and tried with "irb" and "irb --noreadline"
>
> Regards
>
> Maria
>
>
>



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