Question

I am trying to parse an Gmail’s email. I am using Imap methods and so far so good.
My problem is with html emails. I searched everywhere for converting html body to plain text but nothing works for me so I am trying to do it myself. I am taking the html, clearing the all the attributes and now I have an encoding issue.
Some of my emails are in Hebrew and the Hebrew in the html looks like this :

=F0=E0 =F6=F8=E5 =E0=E9=FA=E9 =F7=F9=F8 =E1=E1=F7=F9=E4 =E1=E8=EC=F4=
=E5=EF

I tried converting it from hex to string but the result wasn’t perfect. some words were missing.

How can I convert is to Hebrew chars?

Thanks a lot,
Elad

Answer 1

It seems you have some encoding issues with the HTML you receive.
You’re going to need to convert it to the correct encoding.

This works:

        Encoding latinEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1252");
        Encoding hebrewEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1255");

        string msys = "=F0=E0 =F6=F8=E5 =E0=E9=FA=E9 =F7=F9=F8 =E1=E1=F7=F9=E4 =E1=E8=EC=F4=E5=EF";
        msys = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(msys.Replace('=', '%').Replace(" ", "%20"), latinEncoding);

        byte[] latinBytes = latinEncoding.GetBytes(msys);
        string hebrewString = hebrewEncoding.GetString(latinBytes);

First part of your problem is that the =F0=E0.. are actually URLEncoded with a = instead of a % at the begining. So we replace the problematic characters and UrlDecode it.

Afterwards, we convert it from the Windows-1252 encoding to the Windows-1255 encoding.

As a side note: there is a problem in the example string you gave: =F4= =E5=EF should actually be =F4 =E5=EF (the = character is always before, not after the decoded part)

I tested it and it works fine on your string… בהצלחה