diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ This is a collection of tools around (managing) Netnews.
 ## canlockcheck
 
 `canlockcheck.pl` will check whether a given Cancel-Lock and Cancel-Key match.
+
+## mew
+
+`mew.pl` will encode or decode MIME encoded words (RFC 2047).
diff --git a/mew.pl b/mew.pl
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+++ b/mew.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#! /usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# mew.pl
+#
+# converts from and to MIME encoded words
+#
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>
+
+use utf8;
+use Encode;
+use MIME::QuotedPrint;
+use MIME::Base64;
+
+my $input = join (' ',@ARGV);
+
+if ($input =~ /[\x80-\x{ffff}]/o) {
+   print encode('MIME-Q', $input);
+} else {
+   print decode('MIME-Q', $input); 
+};
+
+print "\n";