I did little more study and it seems that the strings
I see in the /var/mail/user is "quoted-printable"
strings. I could use MIME::QuotedPrint to decode them.
I will give a try. Anyway, thanks drieux !!! I can
always count on your reply:)
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MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55)
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
00144473,Vik =D8yvind
00144854,Vintervoll Rune
00144824,Voie, Roger
00144474,Volden Kjell
00145022,Vreim Marte
00144867,Vr=E5lstad,Ellen
00144390,Wahlund Leif
00145011,Waalv=E5g Tommy
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--- drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 06:29 , Scott Ding
> wrote:
> [..]
> >
> > One issue came up with is that when an email that
> > contains person's name like "WaalvÂg Scott" or
> "Mike
> > ÿyvind", the perl script doesn't print them
> correctly,
> > meaning, the names is not saved in the file
> correctly.
> [..]
>
> this looks like a 'unicode' problem....
>
> when i open up the 'raw source' on your email with
> my
> little Mac Mail.app I notice:
>
> << name like "Waalv\345g Scott" or "Mike\n
> \330yvind", >>
>
> so the trick is 'how do i get perl to parse
> unicode data so that there is some way to save
> that "\345" token where it belongs in the dataset.
>
> there are a variety of modules at the CPAN
>
>
> http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=unicode
>
> that you may want to look into.
>
> The problem with how they are 'saved in the file
> correctly'
> may also be an interesting problem as well.... since
> as
> the example above notes - in a 'raw ascii mode' that
> "\345"
> would appear to most to be 'wrong' - except of
> course that
> it actually IS the way that those things are 'packed
> up'
> and shipped around...
>
>
> ciao
> drieux
>
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