Parsing (Unicode?) characters from Usenet messages

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm a loss how to resolve this. I have a file full of messages grabbed from an NNTP server. Some of the messages use characters > 127. These don't come out in a way I can easily understand.

For instance, the name "Mlle. Anais" (where the i has a diaresis on top) is in the file as "Mlle. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ana=EFs?=". I believe I get this - it's telling me that the Anais part consists of "Ana", then the Latin-1 Supplement character represented as 0xef, then "s".

I'd like to save these captured messages in a format compatible with reading in a web browser. I know I could do a brute-force substition where I find anything starting with '=?iso-8859-1' and smash on it with some perl code, but I suspect there's a clean, elegant, etc means of doing this. Suggestions? Ideas on where to RTFM? etc?</p?

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Re: Parsing (Unicode?) characters from Usenet messages by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 24, 2010 at 21:35 UTC
`use Encode qw( decode ); decode('MIME-Header', $s)` [download] Encode::MIME::Header	[reply] [d/l]