[Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Laurent Blume wrote:

> I would personally find it useful. I use accented and Chinese characters, and

I, too.

> 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 case etc.pp.?

> As for the risks, maybe some Unicode ranges could be restricted to avoid 
> control characters and such? Or limit the use to given subsets?

UTF8 does use octets >= 0x80, every system should be 8bit clean nowadays.

regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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