Re: Does Gnus UTF-7?

[Jon K Hellan <Jon.K.Hellan@item.ntnu.no>]

andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig) writes:

> I notice that I get more and more UTF-7 coded mails. For example with
> such a header:
> 
>     X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I)
>     Mime-Version: 1.0
>     Subject: =?x-UNICODE-2-0-UTF-7?B?QUdST0ItR2VsK08yUS1l?=
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-UNICODE-2-0-UTF-7
>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> Is Gnus expected to convert them for me?
> 
> IOW, is it a bug I have to track down when I actually see those ugly
> +APwA3w- and +ANY- sequences or is UTF-7 support just not there?

I recently implemented UTF-7 encoding/decoding. It is distributed with
recent nnimap distributions
("http://www.extundo.com/nnimap/nnimap.tar.gz").

Code to interface with gnus is obviously not there.

I did the shortcut of assuming a latin-1 environment, but it should
be easy to extend to Unicode once that becomes available in Emacs.

Jon