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Re: Unicode newsgroup name options

2003-02-22 15:24:44

leg+(_at_)andrew(_dot_)cmu(_dot_)edu (Lawrence Greenfield)  wrote on 21.02.03 
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   Date: 21 Feb 2003 22:11:00 +0200
   From: kaih(_at_)khms(_dot_)westfalen(_dot_)de (Kai Henningsen)
[...]
   UTF-7 has, however, one important problem: it uses + as the escape
   character. My active file has over 200 groups with a + in their name.

[... reinventing IMAP4's modified UTF-7 elided ...]

You might want to read the IMAP archives where the decision to use
modified UTF-7 for mailbox names was made and some of the feedback
there. The IMAP mUTF-7 goals are close enough to yours that you could
just adapt it and at least make one group (IMAP client/servers)
easier. But the IMAP community in general seems like it has been less
than thrilled about the mUTF-7 mailbox names.

Actually, it seems that mUTF-7 fails to address the unique encoding  
requirement just as UTF-7 does.

Apart from that, it is certainly concievable that omething in this  
direction could be done - there's a reason I called mine a strawman  
proposal. I certainly didn't expect it to be final - it was meant to  
demonstrate a possible way to solve the problem, nothing more.

MfG Kai