Re: Bug reported regarding Unicode handling in email address

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Steffen,

> It is really terrible that all this is a black box; but how to do it
> right?  In the end, with Unicode aka UTF-8 locales, we come to a point
> where it would really be doable, since now nl_langinfo(CODESET), or
> whatever input character set you pass to iconv(3), could actually be
> warped to the entire set of character classification functions, like
> [w]isspace() etc.  But so you have black box iconv here, and LC
> derived classification possibilities there.  You are condemned to live
> in the user's locale.

Why not iconv(3) the input from the user's locale, the MIME part's
charset, etc., to UTF-8, work internally, and then iconv() again on the
way back out?  I feel you're telling me above, but I don't quite get
your point.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.