[Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

[Joseph Yee]

On 10-Nov-09, at 9:02 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

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> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Laurent Blume wrote:
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>> I would personally find it useful. I use accented and Chinese  
>> characters, and
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> I, too.
Same here.

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>> I've worked in environments where they were common as well. Having  
>> a common name between MUA and FS would certainly be nice.
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> 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.?


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>> As for the risks, maybe some Unicode ranges could be restricted to  
>> avoid control characters and such? Or limit the use to given subsets?
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> UTF8 does use octets >= 0x80, every system should be 8bit clean  
> nowadays.

I had some worries rather than risk.  Some MUA may convert before  
passing the name, and it results in no match... but maybe Timo thought  
about this already :)

Other than looking weird to sys admin whose non foreign speaker,  
especially in bidirectional presentation, in file system, there should  
be no issue.

best,
Joseph

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> regards,
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> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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