Is there a way to decode q-encoded strings in Ruby?

Question

I\'m working with mails, and names and subjects sometimes come q-encoded, like this:

=?UTF-8?Q?J=2E_Pablo_Fern=C3=A1ndez?=

Is there a way t

Answer 1

This is a pretty old question but TMail::Unquoter (or its new incarnation Mail::Encodings) does the job as well.

TMail::Unquoter.unquote_and_convert_to(str, 'utf-8' )

or

Mail::Encodings.unquote_and_convert_to( str, 'utf-8' )