Re: [Imap-protocol] MUTF7, UTF8, and Unicode flags
Jan Kundrát <[email protected]>
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On Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:10:01 CEST, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > just use UTF8 for mailbox names Seriously? This is going to break stuff. You might argue that people creating mailboxes named "&U,BTFw-" are unlikely :), but it's a valid string both in UTF-8 and in the modified UTF-7 encoding -- except that the two meanings are very different. Implementing imap-utf7 is not hard, and chances are that there are libraries which one can easily use in almost every language. Sending UTF-8 where the standard is absolutely clear on what to do is just wrong. As for the flags/keywords, there's unfortunately no standard for that. Thunerbird is using modified UTF-7 for them [1]. There's a proposal [2] for using the METADATA extension for mapping ASCII keywords to Unicode names, but I don't think it was ever standardized (and perhaps not implemented, either). Cheers, Jan [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650623 [2] http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Gmail-like-labels-three-years-later-td41128.html -- Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/ _______________________________________________ Imap-protocol mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-protocol