use Encode qw(decode); my $str = 'username, A Ne=?UTF-16?B?dwAgAEMAcgBlAGQAaQB0ACAAQwBhAHIAZAAgAEMAbwB1AGwAZAAgAEIAZQAgAEgAZQBhAGQAZQBkACAAWQBvAHUAcgAgAFcAYQB5AA==?='; my $chr = decode('MIME-Header', $str); print "$chr\n";