Rails - Nov 2005 - Displaying encoded strings?

Is there a way to present the following string correctly in a browser?

  =?UTF-8?B?RndkOiDoqo3lrprjga7mioDooZPnmoTln7rmupY=?
We have a raw e-mail stored and some metadata. ActionMailer correctly  
displays the message contents using UTF8 encoding in MySQL and the  
layout views.

But this message field needs to be decoded in some manner I think.

Due to the database structure (not under my control), we have to use  
the metadata subject field when displaying large lists. The raw e- 
mail message is only parsed by ActionMailer when viewing the entire  
message for obvious reasons.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

--
Lon Baker

Lon Baker wrote:
> Is there a way to present the following string correctly in a browser?
>
>  =?UTF-8?B?RndkOiDoqo3lrprjga7mioDooZPnmoTln7rmupY=?>
> We have a raw e-mail stored and some metadata. ActionMailer correctly 
> displays the message contents using UTF8 encoding in MySQL and the 
> layout views.
>
> But this message field needs to be decoded in some manner I think.
>
> Due to the database structure (not under my control), we have to use 
> the metadata subject field when displaying large lists. The raw e-mail 
> message is only parsed by ActionMailer when viewing the entire message 
> for obvious reasons.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Lon Baker
>
>
>
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try this...
[code]
  require ''iconv''
  newstring = 
Iconv.new(''utf-8'',''iso-8859-1'',).iconv(some_variable_with_utf8_encoded_string_goes_here)

[/code]

Change ''iso-8859-1'' to prefered charset...

// Jonas Montonen, http://bytadvd.se