W B Hacker wrote: > Philip Hazel wrote: > >>On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, W B Hacker wrote: >> >> >> >>>As a matter of general curiosity, is it well-known what effect, if any, >>>UTF-8 >>>(or non-UTF Asian encodings) have on any of this? >> >> >>My guess is "no effect" because TAB in Unicode is the same one-byte >>character that it is in ASCII. >> > > > ACK for tab - but does '8-bit safe' apply to everything else as well? > > Mind - I am not concernend about headers or message body - those are areas > where > lots of experience exists. > > Only with possible glitches in authentication, where I am not so sure... > > .. (goes off to put his *Chinese* name into the DB and find out what > happens....) > > Back shortly... > > Bill >
Update: (view this in UTF-8) Dovecot's postgreSQL-driven 'plain' (within SSL) authenticator WILL accept: '韓家標' - as a password. Exim's 'plain' authenticator (also within SSL) will NOT do so. (at least not as I have mine configured). Other Notes: - Both must (presently) use an ASCII, not UTF-8 UID. That *appears* to be a limitation of my MUA's storage methodology (Mozilla Suite Mailer on OS X), which munges Chinese-as-UTF-8 into 'none of the above' characters, i.e. not escaped octal, or anything else obviously recognizable. - Likewise both must (presently) use an ASCII account name or destination address, ELSE Moz Mail MUA throws a flag saying 'no local part'. Thta is likely to be 'standards' based. No attempt has been made to use a non-ASCII domain.tld. That I'll leave to the PRC who have the necessary compatible nameservers. Bill Hacker 韓家標 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
