PHP 7.0.6 Released

mb_decode_mimeheader

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)

mb_decode_mimeheaderDecode string in MIME header field

Description

string mb_decode_mimeheader ( string $str )

Decodes encoded-word string str in MIME header.

Parameters

str

The string being decoded.

Return Values

The decoded string in internal character encoding.

See Also

User Contributed Notes

Brett
4 years ago
See also the following functions which may work better in some cases:
iconv_mime_decode() - http://php.net/manual/function.iconv-mime-decode.php
imap_utf8() - http://php.net/manual/function.imap-utf8.php
tomlove at gmail dot com
6 years ago
This function ignores any encoded-word specified in a character set not supported by the mbstring extension (e.g. Arabic windows-1256). Such encoded-words pass straight through.

RFC2047 doesn't specify the behaviour, but common agents such as Gmail, Windows Mail, etc. DO NOT ignore such encoded words. They are decoded as if they were declared to be in the local character set.

Be aware of this idiosyncrasy.
Frogger2000 at gmx dot de
13 years ago
Using quoted-printable-encoding the hex-numbers must be written in uppercase letters!

Works: =?iso-8859-1?q?=3F=3F=3F?=
Fails: =?iso-8859-1?q?=3f=3f=3f?=
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