Decode Quoted Printable
Decode Quoted-Printable text, as used in email, into readable UTF-8.
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About this tool
Decodes text in Quoted-Printable format, the encoding often seen in email bodies. Each =XX sequence, where XX is two hex digits, becomes the byte it stands for, and the bytes are read as UTF-8, so =C3=A9 turns into é. A soft line break, an equals sign at the end of a line, is removed so wrapped lines join back together. If the bytes are not valid UTF-8, for example Latin-1 content like =E9 alone, the tool falls back to turning each byte into one character, so =E9 becomes é. That fallback is right for Latin-1 but wrong for other character sets. The tool does not read MIME headers or other parts of the email. It runs in your browser.
How to use it
- Paste the Quoted-Printable text.
- Read the decoded text in the output.
- If letters look wrong, check which character set the email declares.
Example
caf=C3=A9 au = lait
café au lait
Common problems
- Accented letters look wrong
- The fallback treats every byte as a Latin-1 character. If the email uses another character set, such as Windows-1253 or Shift_JIS, the result will show the wrong letters.
- Words are still split with = at line ends
- Only an = directly at the end of a line is treated as a soft break. Trailing spaces after the = prevent that.
- Headers and other MIME parts are included
- Paste only the encoded body. The tool does not parse the email structure.