Patch: DIGEST-MD5 and Charset "utf8"

Alexey Melnikov alexey.melnikov at isode.com
Thu May 25 09:03:43 EDT 2006


Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

>On Wed, 24 May 2006, Andreas Winkelmann wrote:
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>>The Server announces it's Charset as "utf8" not "utf-8", Cyrus-SASL does not 
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>It is just incompetence at work again.  utf8 is invalid, that server is
>broken.  UTF-8 must always be represented as utf-8 or UTF-8.   It is in the
>UTF-8 specification, and also RFCs 3629 and 2978.
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>In the interest of compatibility Cyrus-SASL might actually remap utf8 to
>utf-8, but I am really tempted to say it would be best to just let it be and
>tell Vodafone to get whomever wrote their smtp server to fix it.
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Nicely said. Exact my thoughts.




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