IMAP UTF-7, any codec for that anywhere?

**Brian Quinlan** · Jul 18 '05, 06:12 PM

Re: IMAP UTF-7, any codec for that anywhere?

Max M wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there any codec available for handling The special UTF-7 codec for IMAP?
>
> I have searched the web for info, but there only seem to be discussions
> about it. Not actual implementations .[/color]

Is there something special do you need or is recipe OK?
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>>> u"\u00ff".encod e('utf-7')[/color][/color][/color]
'+AP8-'

Cheers,
Brian

**Max M** · Jul 18 '05, 06:12 PM

Re: IMAP UTF-7, any codec for that anywhere?

Brian Quinlan wrote:[color=blue]
> Max M wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Is there any codec available for handling The special UTF-7 codec for
>> IMAP?[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Is there something special do you need or is recipe OK?
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> u"\u00ff".encod e('utf-7')[/color][/color]
> '+AP8-'[/color]

A recipe would be excellent. Unfortunately yours is no right. It should
have looke like:
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>>> imapUTF7Encode( u"\u00ff")[/color][/color][/color]
'&AP8-'

I believe you missed the 'special' in "The special UTF-7 codec for IMAP?"

Imap folders use a non-standard version of utf-7, where some characters
are different.

I found som messages from 2001 on the net between a few Python unicode
developers, where they discuss implementing it. But I cannot find an
implementation anywhere.

I found a perl module that converts to/from the codec, but as usual that
is regex hell. Well ok its not that difficult, but I still need to think
to hard to parse Perl regex'

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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

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