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From: Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnir and character encodings?
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:59:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwtjjrqy.fsf@andy.bu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yb0d3ona393.fsf@dod.no>

>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

    Steinar> Question: how does nnir handle character encodings?  I
    Steinar> tried to search my nnimap server for "widerøe" (without the
    Steinar> quotes) to find my X-mas airplane tickets.  That came up
    Steinar> with no matches.

    Steinar> But "wideroe" (again without the quotes) came up with
    Steinar> matches.

    Steinar> So the searches seems to be ASCII-only...?  I don't know
    Steinar> whether that limitation is in nnir, or the protocol, or the
    Steinar> dovecot IMAP server.


IMAP supports non-ASCII charsets but the protocol is a bit cumbersome
and I haven't implemented it in nnir yet. The support is also server
dependent: the spec says all servers must support US-ASCII but are not
required to support any other charsets. I have no idea which servers
support what at the moment. 

To see if your server supports iso-8859 you can try to use a raw imap
search and append "CHARSET ISO-8859" and see what happens :)

Andy




  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-27 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-27 11:01 Steinar Bang
2010-12-27 12:59 ` Andrew Cohen [this message]
2010-12-27 13:09   ` Andrew Cohen
2010-12-27 16:30     ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-27 17:59       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-02  5:51         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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