From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-07-05T19:15:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Charset Detection

Shea Barton wrote:
> 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?= <CollegeBoard@noreply.collegeboard.org>
> 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 <CollegeBoard@noreply.collegeboard.org>
> Subject:  SAT Question of the Day

Not answering your question directly, but this syntax is specific to 
MIME encoding of E-mail headers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Encoded-Word

So if you look at ruby MIME toolkits you may find what you're looking 
for.
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