In article <EA8AA46EB86616943490A217@PSB> you write: >> The charset is currently unnamed, as far as I can see: it's >> the UTF-7 variant in section 5.1.3 of RFC 3501. > >I have not been following IMAP work carefully in recent years >(others here may be able to easily fill in the blanks) but my >impression is that, as Unicode encoded in UTF-8 has taken over >as the generally preferred form for transmission of non-ASCII >characters over the Internet, UTF-7 has generally fallen out of >use even if it has not been explicitly deprecated. ... Everything you say is true, but I can say from experience that even though the RFC 6855 UTF-8 character encodings are a lot better than the mutant UTF-7 in RFC 3501, in practice hardly anyone implements the UTF-8 encodings yet, but everyone has the old UTF-7. Since that this bad encoding is well defined and widely implemented, I can't object to giving it a name. Perhaps UTF-7UGH. R's, John
