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Asked: 2026-05-16T05:21:03+00:00

I have tested PHP’s IMAP lib. to fetch emails from a GMAIL account, but

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I have tested PHP’s IMAP lib. to fetch emails from a GMAIL account, but I’ve just can’t get my head around trying to make the characters to display correctly.

At first, I was close to pull my hair off when I realized that I accidentally fetched the attachments instead of the message body – not good, but now when that is solved, I still have problems viewing the actual messages with appropriate Swedish characters, like åÅ äÄ öÖ which instead appear as their ASCII-cousins; =E4, =E5 – and so on.

What is the appropriate way to solve this? I’ve tested all encoding functions that I can think of by myself – and it won’t work…

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Not 100% sure, but it seems to me that the content of the message is quoted-printable encoded. Try quoted_printable_decode – http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.quoted-printable-decode.php

    If you are already using the IMAP extension, you can also try imap_qprint – http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-qprint.php

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