Encode::MIME::Header(3pm)                       Perl Programmers Reference Guide                       Encode::MIME::Header(3pm)



NAME
       Encode::MIME::Header -- MIME 'B' and 'Q' header encoding

SYNOPSIS
           use Encode qw/encode decode/;
           $utf8   = decode('MIME-Header', $header);
           $header = encode('MIME-Header', $utf8);

ABSTRACT
       This module implements RFC 2047 Mime Header Encoding.  There are 3 variant encoding names; "MIME-Header", "MIME-B" and
       "MIME-Q".  The difference is described below

                     decode()          encode()
         ----------------------------------------------
         MIME-Header Both B and Q      =?UTF-8?B?....?=
         MIME-B      B only; Q croaks  =?UTF-8?B?....?=
         MIME-Q      Q only; B croaks  =?UTF-8?Q?....?=

DESCRIPTION
       When you decode(=?encoding?X?ENCODED WORD?=), ENCODED WORD is extracted and decoded for X encoding (B for Base64, Q for
       Quoted-Printable). Then the decoded chunk is fed to decode(encoding).  So long as encoding is supported by Encode, any
       source encoding is fine.

       When you encode, it just encodes UTF-8 string with X encoding then quoted with =?UTF-8?X?....?= .  The parts that RFC
       2047 forbids to encode are left as is and long lines are folded within 76 bytes per line.

BUGS
       It would be nice to support encoding to non-UTF8, such as =?ISO-2022-JP?  and =?ISO-8859-1?= but that makes the
       implementation too complicated.  These days major mail agents all support =?UTF-8? so I think it is just good enough.

       Due to popular demand, 'MIME-Header-ISO_2022_JP' was introduced by Makamaka.  Thre are still too many MUAs especially
       cellular phone handsets which does not grok UTF-8.

SEE ALSO
       Encode

       RFC 2047, <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html>; and many other locations.



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-07                                  Encode::MIME::Header(3pm)