Paul J Stevens wrote: > During the construction of the ENVELOPE response, we need to parse the > email address headers such as From, To and Reply-to. For that we > currently use gmime's InternetAddress interface which is very good at > dealing with such data. Internally InternetAddress uses utf-8 encoding, > while in the context of imap we need rfc2047 (utf-7) encoded headers. > > So when the name of the sender is needed we need to encode that name, > and for that I'm currently using; > > char * gmime_utils_header_encode_phrase(unsigned char *in); > > That call does a best-effort attempt at finding the right encoding for > the utf-8 string 'in', which in this case returns iso-8859-5, even > though that charset is said to be the least popular encoding for > cyrillic characters according to the comments in gmime-utils.c. > > So, if it works for you I'm happy with it. If it becomes a problem for > other users later on, we can escalate this upstream to the good folks at > redhat who are working on gmime.
OK I undestand. Thanks again. -- Oleg Lapshin
