UTF-8 characters Read Covert Decode

Klaipedaville · 06-29-2015, 02:12 AM

Hello there!

Would highly appreciate it if someone could advise on how to read the following:

Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UHVpa3VzIHBhc2nFq2x5bWFzIEp1bXMhISE=?=

The line above is clearly encoded with UTF-8. Are there any simple tables or something to decode it? For example UHV = p, pa3 = k, c2nF = z and so on. Then knowing the "code" it will be possible to apply it and read the line above. The line above is actual and it has a meaning / sentence inside.

Many thanks for any input / suggestions at all in advance!

P.S. I tried this one but it does not seem to match any characters in my line above http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode...codeinhtml=hex

veerain · 06-29-2015, 02:20 AM

Where did you got it? Perhaps part of it base64 encoded. There are many variants.

Klaipedaville · 06-29-2015, 02:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veerain

Where did you got it?

- It's the actual subject input as stated in my question.

Quote:

Perhaps part of it base64 encoded. There are many variants.

- I know there are variants, everybody knows that I guess.

I was asking if there are any specific ideas how to decode this particular line?

NevemTeve · 06-29-2015, 03:04 AM

@OP: Are you using some programming language? If so, please name it.

firstfire · 06-29-2015, 03:31 AM

Hi.

Look here.

Letter B tells that it is a base-64 encoded string:

Code:

$ echo '=?UTF-8?B?UHVpa3VzIHBhc2nFq2x5bWFzIEp1bXMhISE=?=' | sed 's/.*B?//' | base64-decode 
Puikus pasilymas Jums!!!

Klaipedaville · 06-29-2015, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by firstfire

Hi.

Look here.

Letter B tells that it is a base-64 encoded string:

Code:

$ echo '=?UTF-8?B?UHVpa3VzIHBhc2nFq2x5bWFzIEp1bXMhISE=?=' | sed 's/.*B?//' | base64-decode 
Puikus pasilymas Jums!!!

Thank you so much, firstfire! Perfect! I think I'll manage it on my own now and build further on it. :-) Пламенный привет городу-герою Екатеринбургу!

Habitual · 06-29-2015, 07:30 PM

looks like a cool python exercise.