Writing new codecs

[Brian Quinlan]

M.-A.Lemburg wrote:
> Only the most important codecs will be placed into unicodeobject.c.

> I think that UTF-7 would be a good candidate, since it is
> a native Unicode encoding. UTF-32 would be another candidate.

What about UTF-7, modified to be used in IMAP, as described in RFC2060
(I could also modify it slightly for vanilla UTF-7 [RFC1642])? I ask you
directly since you are likely going to be assigned the patch :-)