Decoding UTF-8 email subject?

Question

I have a string in this form: =?utf-8?B?zr...

And I want to get the name of the file in proper UTF-8 encoding. Is there a library method somewhere in ma

Answer 1

In MIME terminology, those encoded chunks are called encoded-words. Check out javax.mail.internet.MimeUtility.decodeText in JavaMail. The decodeText method will decode all the encoded-words in a string.

You can grab it from maven with

 javax.mail
 mail
 1.4.4