Windows-1255 to UTF8 conversion

[ulewin]

Need to convert windows-1255 encoded strings (e.g. =?windows-1255?B?
MDkuZG9j?=" ) to UTF-8

Any suggestion/idea would be appreciated

Uri

[Adam Fine]

require 'iconv'
Iconv.conv('utf-8', 'windows-1255', windows_1255_str)

-Adam
 

Uri

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[ulewin]

Hi Adam,

It does not work for me, i.e. the string "=?windows-1255?B?MDkuZG9j?
=" does not convert.
There seems to be a missing step, some kind of preparation action on
the string that would allow us to perform the iconv

Uri

On Dec 17, 7:16 pm, Adam Fine <a...@adamfine.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM, ulewin <ule...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Need to convert windows-1255 encoded strings (e.g. =?windows-1255?B?
> > MDkuZG9j?=" ) to UTF-8
>
> > Any suggestion/idea would be appreciated
>
> require 'iconv'
> Iconv.conv('utf-8', 'windows-1255', windows_1255_str)
>
> -Adam
>
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[ulewin]

The missing step was mainly about base64 decoding
This worked for me:

require 'iconv'
require "base64"

base_string = "=?windows-1255?B?MDkuZG9j?="
base_string.gsub!('=?windows-1255?B?','').gsub!('?=','')

decoded_string = Base64.decode64(base_string)
output_string = Iconv.conv('utf-8', 'windows-1255',
decoded_string )