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Decode quoted-printable text

Turn equals-prefixed byte values from email content into readable text.

Install in Serialize

What it can do

  • Decode hexadecimal escape pairs
  • Restore spaces and punctuation
  • Handle encoded line breaks

How the recipe works

From Quoted Printable

Replace quoted-printable byte escapes with their original bytes.

Demonstration

Sample input

Hello=2C=20Serialize=21=0ASecond=20line=2E

Expected result

Hello, Serialize!
Second line.

When to use it

  • Email-body inspection
  • MIME troubleshooting
  • Recovering text copied from raw messages

Adapt it

Decode the MIME transfer layer before applying character-set conversion from the message headers.

Source and verification

Adapted from Coventry University: encoding exercises. The explanation and sample are written for Serialize, use synthetic or documentation-safe data, and are checked against the current operation catalogue. The workflow runs locally without an external API call.

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