How to correctly display utf encoded characters on my utf-8 encoded page?

Question

Hi guys, I receive emails, and some of my emails have utf encoded text. However, even if my page is encoded as utf 8 - in some places, when I try to display utf text, I get funny characters, for example:

=?utf-8?B?Rlc6INqp24zYpyDYotm+INin2LMg2YXYs9qp2LHYp9uB2bkg2qnbjCDZhtmC?= 
=?utf-8?B?2YQg2qnYsdiz2qnYqtuSINuB24zaug==?=

While in other areas of the same page it is displayed normally. What's happening?

Answer 1

These are not “funny characters,” they are legitimate ASCII characters. It's just that the MIME string is encoded for transport, so you need to pass it through mb_decode_mimeheader.

Answer 2

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