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TIdNNTP TIdMessage.From.Name utf 8 ?

Subject:TIdNNTP TIdMessage.From.Name utf 8 ?
Posted by:"Brian Cryer" (bria..@127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk)
Date:Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:48:51

I'm using the Indy TIdNNTP component to read messages from a newsgroup
server. Something I've noticed is that occasionally I get a garbled
from-name - TIdMessage.From.Name doesn't return me a name like I would
expect but something garbled like:

    "=?Utf-8?B?QWRyaWFuIH4gRm9vYmFyU29mdHdhcmUuY29t?="

I'm assuming from the fact that "Utf-8" always appears at the start of this,
that I need to be doing some converting. Any ideas or pointers?

Thanks in advance.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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