[Imap-protocol] Re: [Alpine-alpha] Gmail + Alpine + IMAP keywords

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Oct 29 21:18:25 2007, Philip Guenther wrote:

> The characters in atom-specials can't be included directly in flag  

> names and they can't be encoded in modified-UTF-7, so simply saying  

> "flag names should be interpreted as being in modified-UTF-7" would  

> not be sufficient to let gmail represent all possible label names.


An alternative would be a standard mechanism for descriptive names of  
keywords, which a clever client could then use in lieu of the atoms  
in its UI. Clients could then query the server for the human-readable  
label for the keyword - everything is, of course, soluble given an  
additional layer of indirection.

I'm not saying I prefer this, but it might be easier to go this  
route, and it doesn't preclude a UTF-8 variant of the FLAGS fetch  
item from using this directly in the future.

Dave.
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