[Python-Dev] mUTF-7 support?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:12:29 -0700
Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
> > I miss mUTF-7 support (as used to encode IMAP4 mailbox names) in Python,
> > in the codecs module. As an european with a language with 27 different
> > letters (instead of english 26), tildes, opening question marks, etc., I
> > find it very inconvenient.
> >
> > This encoding is used basically only in IMAP4, I know. But IMAP4 is an
> > important protocol and all projects related to it needs mUTF-7 support
> > if they care about non-english alphabets. Everybody has already an
> > implementation, waste of effort.
> 
> I've been parsing up a huge gmail account with no encoding errors,
> using CPython 2.x and CPython 3.x.  I'd be surprised if there are no
> foreign characters in any of the thousands of messages there - but
> maybe I'm just being very lucky.  I'm not specifying a codec, and I
> don't see a way of specifying one offhand.

AFAIU, this is specifically about mailbox names, not messages.

Regards

Antoine.