


ext::MIME::Base64PerloProgrammeext::MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint(3p)


NAME
       MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-print-
       able strings

SYNOPSIS
        use MIME::QuotedPrint;

        $encoded = encode_qp($decoded);
        $decoded = decode_qp($encoded);

DESCRIPTION
       This module provides functions to encode and decode
       strings into the Quoted-Printable encoding specified in
       RFC 2045 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
       The Quoted-Printable encoding is intended to represent
       data that largely consists of bytes that correspond to
       printable characters in the ASCII character set.  Non-
       printable characters (as defined by english americans) are
       represented by a triplet consisting of the character "="
       followed by two hexadecimal digits.

       The following functions are provided:

       encode_qp($str)
       encode_qp($str, $eol)
           This function will return an encoded version of the
           string given as argument.

           The second argument is the line ending sequence to
           use.  It is optional and defaults to "\n".  Every
           occurence of "\n" will be replaced with this string
           and it will also be used for additional "soft line
           breaks" to ensure that no line is longer than 76 char-
           acters.  You might want to pass it as "\015\012" to
           produce data suitable external consumption.  The
           string "\r\n" will produce the same result on many
           platforms, but not all.

           An $eol of "" special.  If passed no "soft line
           breaks" are introduced and any literal "\n" in the
           original data is encoded as well.

       decode_qp($str);
           This function will return the plain text version of
           the string given as argument.  The lines of the result
           will be "\n" terminated even it the $str argument con-
           tains "\r\n" terminated lines.

       If you prefer not to import these routines into your
       namespace you can call them as:

         use MIME::QuotedPrint ();
         $encoded = MIME::QuotedPrint::encode($decoded);
         $decoded = MIME::QuotedPrint::decode($encoded);



perl v5.8.2                 2002-11-06                          1





ext::MIME::Base64PerloProgrammeext::MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint(3p)


       Perl v5.6 and better allow extended Unicode characters in
       strings.  Such strings cannot be encoded directly as the
       quoted-printable encoding is only defined for bytes.  The
       solution is to use the Encode module to select the byte
       encoding you want.  For example:

           use MIME::QuotedPrint qw(encode_qp);
           use Encode qw(encode);

           $encoded = encode_qp(encode("UTF-8", "\x{FFFF}\n"));
           print $encoded;

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 1995-1997,2002-2003 Gisle Aas.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
       MIME::Base64





































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