Re^2: IMAP mail decoding - non ascii characters

The Lotus Notes app encodes the message using base-64 content type encoding, and so while decoding i'm using the same (MIME-Base64-3.07 > MIME::Base64). The thing is this function/moudule decodes it back from base-64 to ascii character set (not mentioned clearly in the doc as to what it converts to), and hence the problem.

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Re^3: IMAP mail decoding - non ascii characters by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 28, 2008 at 20:00 UTC
You answered how Lotus Notes encodes (UTF-8, Base64). You answered how you decode (Base64, UTF-8). But my question was how do you encode what you decoded. `decode` produces strings, an opaque type. You can't output decoded strings. Only bytes can be outputted to a system file handle. I also asked how do you view the characters. On the console? As a web page cause you're writing a CGI app?	[reply] [d/l]