[dovecot] Re: Architectural questions

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:01:46PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > except that charset support for UTF-8, as well
> > as US-ASCII, is mandatory. I don't know any libraries that convert to/from
> > UTF-8 (though ASCII<->UTF-8 is obviously simple :) and though it's probably
> > easy to roll your own for iso8859-1 I'm not sure if you had a solution in
> > mind yet. Also, supporting the other character sets (like UW-IMAP does) is
> > probably a lot trickier.
> 
> iconv() does it all, comes with glibc.

Um. Of course FreeBSD didn't have glibc, but iconv() is anyway pretty
standard, man page says "Conforming to UNIX98". It comes as a separate
library as well.

BTW. does SquirrelMail also require THREAD extension? It's not much more
different from SORT luckily.