Re: QUICK WG Last Call: draft-ietf-imapext-i18n-14.txt

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@xxxxxxxx>]

Alexey Melnikov writes:
> IMAP doesn't feed partial strings into collations. Describing this 
> would be a nightmare and I am not sure it is worth the effort.

I strongly agree. Having IMAP-I18N reach through 4790 and specify how 
collations behave would be bad.

Also it's not a big problem. The worst that can happen is that for e.g. 
THREAD ORDEREDSUBJECT, a thread can be sorted in a possibly bad 
position if its subject is encoded in a character set the server 
doesn't support. That is a very mild consequence of an unlikely 
occurence. IMO it's not enough to justify a layering violation.

Arnt