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How to decode quoted characters (from quotation mark to char)?

I have text with quoted-printables . Here is an example of such a text (from a wikipedia article ):

If you think that truth = 3Dbeauty, then necessarily = 20 =
mathematics is the most beautiful branch of philosophy.

I am looking for a Java class that decodes an encoded form into characters, e.g. = 20, for a space.

UPDATE: thanks to The Elite Gentleman, I know that I need to use QuotedPrintableCodec:

import org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException;
import org.apache.commons.codec.net.QuotedPrintableCodec;
import org.junit.Test;

public class QuotedPrintableCodecTest { 
private static final String TXT =  "If you believe that truth=3Dbeauty, then surely=20=mathematics is the most beautiful branch of philosophy.";

    @Test
    public void processSimpleText() throws DecoderException
    {
        QuotedPrintableCodec.decodeQuotedPrintable( TXT.getBytes() );           
    }
}

However, I keep getting the following exception:

org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException: Invalid URL encoding: not a valid digit (radix 16): 109
    at org.apache.commons.codec.net.Utils.digit16(Utils.java:44)
    at org.apache.commons.codec.net.QuotedPrintableCodec.decodeQuotedPrintable(QuotedPrintableCodec.java:186)

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE 2: I found this @SO question and found out about MimeUtility :

import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeUtility;

public class QuotedPrintableCodecTest {
    private static final String TXT =  "If you believe that truth=3Dbeauty, then surely=20= mathematics is the most beautiful branch of philosophy.";

    @Test
    public void processSimpleText() throws MessagingException, IOException  
    {
        InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(TXT.getBytes());

            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader(  MimeUtility.decode(is, "quoted-printable") ));         
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); 

            String line;
            while( (line = br.readLine() ) != null )
            {
                writer.append(line);
            }
            System.out.println("INPUT:  "  + TXT);
            System.out.println("OUTPUT: " +  writer.toString() );       
    }
    }

However, the output is not yet perfect, it contains '=':

INPUT:  If you believe that truth=3Dbeauty, then surely=20= mathematics is the most beautiful branch of philosophy.
OUTPUT: If you believe that truth=beauty, then surely = mathematics is the most beautiful branch of philosophy.

Now what am I doing wrong?

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Apache Commons Codec QuotedPrintableCodec is is RFC 1521 Quoted-Printable.

. , , , Soft-line.

-:

Rule #5 (Soft Line Breaks): The Quoted-Printable encoding REQUIRES
      that encoded lines be no more than 76 characters long. If longer
      lines are to be encoded with the Quoted-Printable encoding, 'soft'
      line breaks must be used. An equal sign as the last character on a
      encoded line indicates such a non-significant ('soft') line break
      in the encoded text. Thus if the "raw" form of the line is a
      single unencoded line that says:

          Now the time for all folk to come to the aid of
          their country.

      This can be represented, in the Quoted-Printable encoding, as

          Now the time =
          for all folk to come=
           to the aid of their country.

      This provides a mechanism with which long lines are encoded in
      such a way as to be restored by the user agent.  The 76 character
      limit does not count the trailing CRLF, but counts all other
      characters, including any equal signs.

, :

private static final String CRLF = "\r\n";
private static final String S = "If you believe that truth=3Dbeauty, then surely=20=" + CRLF + "mathematics is the most beautiful branch of philosophy.";

Javadoc :

№ 3, № 4 № 5 , [] . . , , ( № 3, № 4, № 5), Q-.

, Apache QuotedPrintableCodec, -.

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