On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:00:00PM +0200, Fredrik Grönqvist wrote:
> Yes, I see. So in light of this and the conversation on the imap-protocol
> -list
>
> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2008-February/000822.html
>
>
>
> our current options seem to boil down to having the passwords ISO-8859-1
> encoded (given the demographics of our users).
> Those using operating systems with native UTF-8 clients have to use
> passwords containing only 7-bit characters.
Actually I would do it the other way around. You can't really explain to
your UTF-8 using users "you should use that older client instead of this
newer one to make your login work". And some day you'll have to switch to
UTF-8 anyway.
> I didn't realise the specifications were so flexible on this password
> issue.
s/flexible/vague/ :-)
The consensus on the imap-protocol list, and particularly the message you
refer to, seems to be "we should replace ASCII with UTF-8 in the spec".
Geert
