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Re: Sieve base-spec revision I-D

2005-02-24 04:45:19

Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:

I could also see a \0<alpha> sequence having extra
meaning, e.g. '\0xnn' for hex.
What would be the need for \uXXXX that a series of multiple escaped
bytes couldn't provide?

it's more convenient than having to do the UTF-8 coding yourself.  not
that it's hard, I could even do it in my head, but it's error prone.

I second this.

it also puts an additional burden on Sieve script builders, they need to
convert back and forth before presenting the rule for the user.



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