I used utf-7-imap. FWIW. Ned > 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
