Re: How to convert <binaryGlowMixedWithASCII> to pure ASCII

In article <slrn1023i84.2s2es.cmartin+usenetYYMMDD@nyx2.nyx.net>,
Chuck Martin  <cmartin+usenetYYMMDD@nyx.net> wrote:
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Try piping it into the following command:
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perl -CS -MEncode -ne 'print decode("MIME-Header", $_)'

Bingo!  Thanks very much.

That worked well on the other example I gave in the OP too (which was
actually more the focus of my query).

I still get the binary glop in place of the single quotes (The text
contains the word "They're", rendered as "They<binaryglop>re").  Note that
in the input string, <binaryglop> is (the literal string): =E2=80=99
which gets converted by your Perl program into the 3
characters with octal codes (as displayed by "od -bc"): 342 200 231

I can deal with this later problem myself via brute force with AWK, but it
would be nice if I didn't have to - i.e., if there were a complete solution
(i.e., one that does also the other half of the job).

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