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Gaute Hope edited this page Aug 14, 2013 · 6 revisions

UTF-8 Issues

OfflineIMAP and folders with incorrect character encoding

For IMAP folders to show up with correct characters they can be translated to UTF-8. IMAP folders are using an special version of UTF-7. The blog post here describes how to do that translation using pythonfiles and nametrans (remember to do the reverse nametrans when and if you are syncing back): http://piao-tech.blogspot.no/2010/03/get-offlineimap-working-with-non-ascii.html#resources

Essentially you create a translation module for IMAP-UTF-7 to UTF-8 and uses nametrans on the remote source to translate to UTF-8 (from IMAP-UTF-7) and nametrans on the local source to translate from UTF-8 to IMAP-UTF-7.

Terminal encoding

The terminal and configured encoding must be the same for correct behavior. If they are not, there is no way to determine the encoding of user input through ncurses. See issue #125 the reasoning behind.

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