NAME

encode_qp - Encode string using quoted-printable encoding

decode_qp - Decode quoted-printable string

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 1521 - 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 enghlish americans) are represented by a triplet consisting of the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal digits.

Note that the encode_qp() routine does not change newlines "\n" to the CRLF sequence even though this might be considered the right thing to do (RFC 1521 (Q-P Rule #4)).

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);

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1995, 1996 Gisle Aas.

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

AUTHOR

Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>