[Xnews] Recommended utility to convert UTF-8?

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Can anyone recommend a utility for Xnews users which converts the UTF-8
gobbledegook such as you might get in the Xnews's FROM header into a
readable format? For example:

From: =?Utf-8?B?QWxpY2U=?=

There seem to be a lot of UTF-8 utils around but which one works well
for Xnews?

I don't mind if cut & paste is the best to be had if the utility is
convenient to use.
 
Mozzy said:
Can anyone recommend a utility for Xnews users which converts the
UTF-8 gobbledegook such as you might get in the Xnews's FROM header
into a readable format? For example:

From: =?Utf-8?B?QWxpY2U=?=
Click to expand...

try to download *mime-proxy* and start it with Xnews or before for
decoding encoding utf-8 charsets

http://www.lamaiziere.net/mp_pagen.html

from *mime-proxy faq* :

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Purpose.

Mime-proxy is a program to convert characters sets in news articles. It
adds a support of characters sets to newsreaders (as Xnews or Gravity)
that doesn't managed them.

Outgoing articles ( from the client to the server ) are encoded to the
appropriate characters set. Incoming articles are decoded to displayed
them. the application is a proxy server, so it relay posts from news
servers to one or more newsreaders posts. To encode properly outgoing
mails, a SMTP proxy is also available.

Features.

Support characters sets via the library libiconv
Encode / decode quoted-printable encoding.
Encode / decode base 64 encoding.
Encode / decode encoded words (RFC2047).
Manage multipart MIME articles.
Support yEnc encoding
Multi servers, one configuration for each.
Possibility to set configuration via article's header.
Protocols : NNTP, POP, SMTP.
Operating Systems : Windows ( 98, Me, NT4.0, 2000, XP ) / POSIX
 
Can anyone recommend a utility for Xnews users which converts the
UTF-8 gobbledegook such as you might get in the Xnews's FROM
header into a readable format? For example:

From: =?Utf-8?B?QWxpY2U=?=

There seem to be a lot of UTF-8 utils around but which one works
well for Xnews?

I don't mind if cut & paste is the best to be had if the utility
is convenient to use.
Click to expand...

The beauty of UTF-8 is that any normal ASCII-English character encodes
naturally into UTF-8 so that only foreign and esoteric symbols need to
be encoded that way (and Xnews never will support non-ASCII
characters). What you see in the "From" field is more or less a long
stream of characters that translates into "here comes some UTF-8" and
can pretty much be ignored.

I find that if I hover my cursor over such a "From" field in the
Articles window, I find that at the end of the resulting pop-up window
there appears the plain-ASCII version of the From contents somewhere
near the end. Another option is to make your "From" column a lot
wider.

Not what you wanted to hear, but HTH anyway,
-- John
 
Mozzy said:
From: =?Utf-8?B?QWxpY2U=?=
Click to expand...

Stuff that, just make a kill file on all UTF posts in Xnews, honestly
you won't miss a thing :-)

As lutrin pointed out "mime-proxy" is what you want.
 
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