[Python-Dev] mUTF-7 support?

[Jesus Cea]

On 10/10/14 02:00, Victor Stinner wrote:
> 2014-10-10 1:33 GMT+02:00 Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es>:
>> The purpose of these modifications is to correct the following
>>    problems with UTF-7:
> 
> If you need performances, I would be interested to see if it would be
> possible to reuse the C codec for UTF-7 to share as much code as
> possible.

I don't need performance, and implementations I am studying are already
using UTF-7 as an intermediate step.

Example: <http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/browser/imapclient/imap_utf7.py>

> What is the current behaviour of imaplib in Python 3.4 with non-ASCII
> characters in mailbox names?

It breaks. Crash & burn.

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