Re: UTF8 and URL

From: John Cowan (cowan@drv.cbc.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 1997 - 11:49:01 EDT


Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
 
> One of the example is IMAP4rev1 mailbox name. IMAP4rev1 said the mailbox
> name have to be in "Modified version of UTF-7" and the following draft
> try to put IMAP4 into a URL.
>
> ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-newman-url-imap-10.txt
>
> So what really the text in the URL mean now (if we restrict to use UTF-8
> in the URL) ?

I think the draft is pretty clear. The URL is:

Encode("URL-encoding", Encode("UTF-8", Decode("Modified UTF-7",
MailboxName)))

or conversely the mailbox name is:

Encode("Modified UTF-7", Decode("UTF-8", Decode("URL-encoding", URL)))

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
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