HTML UTF-8 Encoding... I'm lost...

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I give up. I tried to not post but I can not solve this issue…

I downloaded an email which has HTML. In gmail it renders fine. In my isp webmail page it renders fine too. In a html viewer it doesn’t.

But that’s not the main point, because I just need to parse some info from the body. The thing is that all the accented characters show up as UTF8 code… for example “habitacin” = habitaci=C3=B3n

Can anyone enlighten me, please… I need to be able to get the names and other stuff from this emails with the correct characters…

thanks a lot.
R

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Maybe I should add that I am not downloading the email to a folderitem, but rather just “printing” it to a text area…

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What do they show up as in the HTML source code?

Email and HTML probably have different means of storing the unicode characters. In HTML you would use &#code, while it looks like email encodes =code. The webmail apps you use are probably designed to make this conversion.

You may need to convert the character yourself.

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Well If I select “show original” in Gmail which afaik shows the HTML code it shows exactly the same “habitaci=C3=B3n”

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I have to manually (programmatically) detect all the UTF8 chars in the doc and convert them…? Is there not a method for this ?

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LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
Unicode: U+00F3
UTF-8: C3 B3

Does this help?

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you may want to decode printed quotable encoding.

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hey, thanks all! I know C3 B3 it’s .

But how do I decode it ?

I mean, Christian… how do I decode printed quotable encoding ?

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this ? http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/DecodeQuotedPrintable

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maybe you check the email client example coming with MBS CURL Plugin?

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I think I got it ! Thanks soo much !