MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint(3)NAME
MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint - encode/decode a "quoted-printable" stream
SYNOPSIS
A generic decoder object; see MIME::Decoder for usage.
DESCRIPTION
A MIME::Decoder subclass for the "quoted-printable" encoding. The name was chosen to jibe with the pre-existing MIME::QuotedPrint utility
package, which this class actually uses to translate each line.
o The decoder does a line-by-line translation from input to output.
o The encoder does a line-by-line translation, breaking lines so that they fall under the standard 76-character limit for this encoding.
Note: just like MIME::QuotedPrint, we currently use the native "
" for line breaks, and not "CRLF". This may need to change in future
versions.
SEE ALSO
MIME::Decoder
AUTHOR
Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com), ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com).
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.16.2 2012-06-08 MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint(3)
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MIME::Decoder::NBit(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation MIME::Decoder::NBit(3)NAME
MIME::Decoder::NBit - encode/decode a "7bit" or "8bit" stream
SYNOPSIS
A generic decoder object; see MIME::Decoder for usage.
DESCRIPTION
This is a MIME::Decoder subclass for the "7bit" and "8bit" content transfer encodings. These are not "encodings" per se: rather, they are
simply assertions of the content of the message. From RFC-2045 Section 6.2.:
Three transformations are currently defined: identity, the "quoted-
printable" encoding, and the "base64" encoding. The domains are
"binary", "8bit" and "7bit".
The Content-Transfer-Encoding values "7bit", "8bit", and "binary" all
mean that the identity (i.e. NO) encoding transformation has been
performed. As such, they serve simply as indicators of the domain of
the body data, and provide useful information about the sort of
encoding that might be needed for transmission in a given transport
system.
In keeping with this: as of MIME-tools 4.x, this class does no modification of its input when encoding; all it does is attempt to detect
violations of the 7bit/8bit assertion, and issue a warning (one per message) if any are found.
Legal 7bit data
RFC-2045 Section 2.7 defines legal "7bit" data:
"7bit data" refers to data that is all represented as relatively
short lines with 998 octets or less between CRLF line separation
sequences [RFC-821]. No octets with decimal values greater than 127
are allowed and neither are NULs (octets with decimal value 0). CR
(decimal value 13) and LF (decimal value 10) octets only occur as
part of CRLF line separation sequences.
Legal 8bit data
RFC-2045 Section 2.8 defines legal "8bit" data:
"8bit data" refers to data that is all represented as relatively
short lines with 998 octets or less between CRLF line separation
sequences [RFC-821]), but octets with decimal values greater than 127
may be used. As with "7bit data" CR and LF octets only occur as part
of CRLF line separation sequences and no NULs are allowed.
How decoding is done
The decoder does a line-by-line pass-through from input to output, leaving the data unchanged except that an end-of-line sequence of CRLF
is converted to a newline "
". Given the line-oriented nature of 7bit and 8bit, this seems relatively sensible.
How encoding is done
The encoder does a line-by-line pass-through from input to output, and simply attempts to detect violations of the "7bit"/"8bit" domain.
The default action is to warn once per encoding if violations are detected; the warnings may be silenced with the QUIET configuration of
MIME::Tools.
SEE ALSO
MIME::Decoder
AUTHOR
Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com), ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com).
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.18.2 2013-11-14 MIME::Decoder::NBit(3)