[dovecot] Re: Architectural questions

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:06:50PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I noticed the same thing :) But it still has to be a concious
decision, as not all platforms come with libiconv and I wasn't sure what
your target audience is, and might become.

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

It looks like it's optional. As a matter of fact, so is SORT :) But both
would be very nice to have, not just for SquirrelMail.

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