# File lib/vpim/field.rb, line 312
      def value
        case encoding
          when nil, '8BIT', '7BIT' then @value

          # Hack - if the base64 lines started with 2 SPC chars, which is invalid,
          # there will be extra spaces in @value. Since no SPC chars show up in
          # b64 encodings, they can be safely stripped out before unpacking.
          when 'B', 'BASE64'       then @value.gsub(' ', '').unpack('m*').first

          when 'QUOTED-PRINTABLE'  then @value.unpack('M*').first

          else
            raise Vpim::InvalidEncodingError, "unrecognized encoding (#{encoding})"
        end
      end