On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Grant Baillie wrote: > 1) For "/", use a Unicode character like U+2215, which will display > approximately the way the user expects. I think there's a similar > unichar for "." and maybe even "\".
As Larry Osterman says, this *is* a valid solution, but is problematic with clients that don't support Unicode. > 2) Modified UTF-7 encode the separator to get the mailbox name. I think > this is illegal according to Section 5.1.3 (Mailbox International > Naming Convention) of the spec, though. As you feared, you can't do this. The reason for the prohibition is to maintain reverse transformation between Modified UTF-7 and UTF-8. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
