More IMAP Annotations (folder display name and translations)

[Johannes Hirche]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, David Faure wrote:

> On Friday 23 September 2005 17:36, Johannes Hirche wrote:
> > Seperating the foldername from its displayname on the other hand is desirable,
> > especially in Outlook, as it allows more or less arbitrary foldernames that can
> > not be stored in IMAP.
>
> Which characters cannot be stored in IMAP? I thought the encoding used by imap allowed basically any character?

No, the IMAP specification is a somehow modified utf7 which
does not allow characters like ()[]{}`'", probably even
more, I guess most foreign language characters are handled
correctly though.

Greets