Quoted-Printable
Encode or decode Quoted-Printable text — the encoding used in emails — in your browser.
How it works
Quoted-Printable is an encoding, defined in the MIME standard, that lets mostly-text data with a few special or non-ASCII characters travel safely through systems that only handle 7-bit text — chiefly email. Readable characters stay as they are, while bytes outside the safe range are written as = followed by two hexadecimal digits (so é becomes =C3=A9 in UTF-8). This tool encodes your text to Quoted-Printable or decodes it back, entirely in your browser, and it is UTF-8 safe so accents and emoji round-trip correctly.
Encoding and decoding
Type or paste your text and press Encode to get the Quoted-Printable form, complete with soft line breaks (= at the end of a wrapped line) so no line exceeds the recommended length. Paste a Quoted-Printable string and press Decode to recover the original text; soft breaks are removed and every =XX sequence is turned back into its byte. The result appears below, ready to copy.
Typical uses
Quoted-Printable mostly shows up in email: message bodies and headers that contain accents or symbols are often encoded this way, which is why a raw email source can look full of = sequences. Decoding it here makes the real text readable again, and encoding is handy when you're crafting or testing MIME content by hand. Everything runs on your device, so sensitive message content is never uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my accented text full of =XX?
That's Quoted-Printable representing each non-ASCII byte. Decoding it here turns those sequences back into the original characters.
Does it handle emoji and accents?
Yes. Text is treated as UTF-8, so multi-byte characters encode and decode correctly.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Encoding and decoding happen entirely in your browser and nothing you enter leaves your device.