Re: [Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

2009-11-12 Thread Joseph Yee
On 10-Nov-09, at 9:02 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Laurent Blume wrote: I would personally find it useful. I use accented and Chinese characters, and I, too. Same here. I've worked in environments where they were common

Re: [Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

2009-11-10 Thread Laurent Blume
Quoting Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: Currently mailbox names are stored in IMAP's modified-UTF-7 format in filesystem. I was wondering about changing this in v2.0. The default would still be to use mUTF-7 in filesystem, but just adding :UTF8 or something to mail_location could enable UTF-8. Any

Re: [Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

2009-11-10 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:11:23PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote: Currently mailbox names are stored in IMAP's modified-UTF-7 format in filesystem. I was wondering about changing this in v2.0. The default would still be to use mUTF-7 in filesystem, but just adding :UTF8 or something to

Re: [Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

2009-11-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: I've worked in environments where they were common as well. Having a common name between MUA and FS would certainly be nice. It would be nicer for some scripts and plugins as well. Will there be an API to match folder names, upper and lower

Re: [Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Winslow
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:11:23 -0500 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: Currently mailbox names are stored in IMAP's modified-UTF-7 format in filesystem. I was wondering about changing this in v2.0. The default would still be to use mUTF-7 in filesystem, but just adding :UTF8 or something to

Re: [Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

2009-11-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:24 -0500, Ben Winslow wrote: A while ago, I was playing around with the idea of encoded '/'s in Maildir names since many people have asked for a way to use them. UTF-7 does not require that each character be representable in only 1 way like UTF-8 does, so it's possible

[Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

2009-11-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
Currently mailbox names are stored in IMAP's modified-UTF-7 format in filesystem. I was wondering about changing this in v2.0. The default would still be to use mUTF-7 in filesystem, but just adding :UTF8 or something to mail_location could enable UTF-8. Any thoughts? Could this be dangerous