why the % cruft?

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Tue Jul 9 18:35:06 BST 2002


On Tuesday 09 July 2002 01:56 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Monday 08 July 2002 11:33 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> |  I don't know. The web-page is in ISO-8859-1 so we send in that encoding.
> | We can send in utf-8 but I doubt that will work if the webserver expects
> | iso-8859-1. Since google adds "ie=ISO-8859-1" itself I strongly suspect
> | that it expects to receive iso-8859-1. We can't send utf-16 because HTTP
> | is a 8-bit protocol, not 16-bit.
>
> ok, what about IMAP folder names than?

According to you they should use utf7, so if KMail tells KURL to use utf7 
everything should be fine. I didn't know IMAP used URLs as part of its 
wire-protocol btw.

Cheers,
Waldo
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