Re: MIME-aware recode or iconv?

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Frank da Cruz scripsit:

> Is anybody aware of a Unix stdin/stdout application (suitable for
> piping) that converts a text stream from one character encoding to
> another based on its MIME headers (as you would find, for example, in
> an email message)?

The following script is not bulletproof, but it should work in most cases:

#!/bin/sh
TMP=/tmp/mime-recode-$$
cat >$TMP
CHARSET=`perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /^Content-Type:.*charset="([^"]*)/i' <$TMP`
iconv -f $CHARSET <$TMP

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