From: Shea Barton Date: 2010-07-05T14:05:13+09:00 Subject: Charset Detection Is there any existing functions or external gems that can take a generic string and parse for charset markers, converting that parts of the string to their appropriate charsets? For example, theres an email with the headers Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:00:29 EDT From: =?iso-8859-1?B?U0FU?= Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?VGhlIE9mZmljaWFsIFNBVCBRdWVzdGlvbiBvZiB0aGUgRGF5?= How can I convert this to what it should be, Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:00:29 EDT From: SAT Subject: SAT Question of the Day -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.