Re: Decode the octets with hexadecimal values.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 5:45 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 16:51:19 +0800
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 4:18 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > > > Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 15:37:42 +0800
> > > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> > > >
> > > > But Emacs is also extremely powerful, I expect someone here can give
> > > > an Emacs-based solution.
> > >
> > > We have quoted-printable-decode-region.
> >
> > But the result will be the one shown in the attached screenshot.
>
> By default, the result is a unibyte string, you need to decode it to
> get readable text:
>
>   (quoted-printable-decode-region FROM TO 'utf-8)
>
> (Do you read the doc strings of the functions before you use them?  If
> not, you should: that's what they are there for.)

Thank you for your valuable hints. The following steps do the trick:

1. C-x RET c utf-8-unix RET
2. Select/mark/highlight the text in question, and then
M-x quoted-printable-decode-region RET

Best,
Zhao