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Email subject line encoding, decoded

Finally! It clicks for me, I now understand  how you encode fancy stuff in the subject line. For years, I'd just paste accented or extended-ASCII text into Gmail to have it create the encoded version for me, but I've never really stopped to look at what it was creating and how it works. A bit of searching undertaken and it turns out, it's governed by RFC. Initially RFC 1342, but …
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⛄ Put a snowman in your subject line ⛄

I'm not going to lie; I think it's a bit silly. But, I get asked about this pretty darn regularly: How can I put symbols in my subject line? Well, it's kind of  easy. First, you have to know what symbol you want to use, then you just need to know what the right bit …