email question

[graziano]

Hello

I am trying to build a little php email reader .

I have seen that robust webmail like Squirrel mail or Horde , are able to covert a string like this

=E1=D7=D4=CF=D4=D2=C1=CE=D3=D0=CF=D2=D4=CE=D9=C5 =D3=D2=C5=C4=D3=D4=D7=C1=
=CE=C1 =D0=D2=C5=C4=D0=D2=C9=D1=D4=C9=C9.

in this correct way

Автотранспортные средства на предприятии.

How could it be possible ?. What are those =E1=D7=D4=CF=D4=D2=C1=CE=D3=.... chars and how to convert them correctly ?

Any idea ?
Thank you

[graziano]

any help please ?

[graziano]

anyone please ?

[php_dev]

That is definetly a tough question. I am not entirely sure what those characters are--however it would appear that those email readers simply convert them using a library. If you were going to try and build it....you could replicate that library. Create a table of some kind that stores the string characters to be converted (ie =E1) and then what character that should be converted to. Then within your scripts use a ereg() function that scans incoming mail for any of those characters. If one exists, call a function that searches the created table for the conversion characters.

It may seem like a lot of work, and maybe PHP has built in functionality for this problem-- but I have never come across it. That's my half baked solution for now

Hope it helps!

[NogDog]

It appears to be a series of hexadecimal values. But the example you give translates to:

á×ÔÏÔÒÁÎÓÐÏÒÔÎÙÅ ÓÒÅÄÓÔ×Á% ÎÁ ÐÒÅÄÐÒÉÑÔÉÉ

I arrived at that with:

<?php
$string = "=E1=D7=D4=CF=D4=D2=C1=CE=D3=D0=CF=D2=D4=CE=D9=C5 =D3=D2=C5=C4=D3=D4=D7=C1=
=CE=C1 =D0=D2=C5=C4=D0=D2=C9=D1=D4=C9=C9";
$string = str_replace('=', '%', $string);
echo urldecode($string);

So if you're saying that the string you provided resulted in that sample text, then no, I don't know what the particular encoding/conversion is.