IMAP UTF-7, any codec for that anywhere?

[Max M]

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.

This is what I am talking about:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2060.html
5.1.3. Mailbox International Naming Convention

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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

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[Brian Quinlan]

Max M wrote:

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.

Is there something special do you need or is recipe OK?

u"\u00ff".encode('utf-7')

'+AP8-'
Cheers,
Brian

[Max M]

Brian Quinlan wrote:

Max M wrote:

Is there any codec available for handling The special UTF-7 codec for
IMAP?

Is there something special do you need or is recipe OK?
>>> u"\u00ff".encode('utf-7') '+AP8-'

A recipe would be excellent. Unfortunately yours is no right. It should
have looke like:

imapUTF7Encode(u"\u00ff")

'&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

http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science