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 --

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