weird characters in HTML email

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Published on 2010-06-03T06:51:00Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 6:54 UTC
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Hi stackers!

I'm reading email from a maildir and some emails have weird sets of characters in them:

=3D
=09

I think =3D is = and =09 is a space. There are some others, but I'm not sure:

=E2
=80
=93

Does anyone know what these are and what encoding issues I'm dealing with here?

BTW, I tried fetching these email via POP3 and it's the same thing. The reason I'm posting this on SO is not because I'm using a regular mail client to read the data. I'm reading via PHP out of maildir files. Perhaps a regular email client would detect what encoding this is and deal with it.

Thanks!

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