[Python-Dev] mUTF-7 support?

[Jesus Cea]

On 10/10/14 02:43, Victor Stinner wrote:
> 2014-10-10 2:34 GMT+02:00 Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es>:
>>> What is the current behaviour of imaplib in Python 3.4 with non-ASCII
>>> characters in mailbox names?
>>
>> It breaks. Crash & burn.
> 
> Oh ok. So in short, imaplib doesn't work on Python 3: it's a bug and
> it must be fixed. I agree that a new codec is good idea and I will
> support it!

Actually, it doesn't work in Python 2 either. It never supported
international mailbox names.

Should I dare to suggest to port this to 2.7, since 2.7 is special and
will be supported for a long time?. Or maybe this is something like
"Yes, Python 2 is broken, the real deal is Python 3"? :).

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