Re: Sieve Internationalization

["Matthew Wall" <wall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Wed, Apr 30, 1997 9:54 AM -0700 "Chris Newman"
<Chris.Newman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> You're going to hate me for this, but IETF standards have to deal with
> this issue.
> 
> Suggestions:
> 
> (1) Sieve scripts use UTF-8 [RFC-2044].  This may require some text for
> message bodies (either all Sieve messages are US-ASCII/UTF-8 or
> non-UTF-8 Sieve messages have to be quoted-printable or base64 encoded).
> 
> (2) Use the concept of "comparators" (formerly ordering functions) from
> ACAP (can even use ACAP's registry).
> 
> Define match-keyword as:
> 
> match-keyword = ("contains" / "matches" / "is") ["-" comparator]
> 
> I'd be tempted to make the default comparator be "en-nocase" for reasons
> I've previously stated, although I'd live with "octet" as the default.
> 
> Note that ACAP's registry will require comparator registrations to state
> if they're suitable for substring matching (some comparators would only
> work with "is").
> 
> Finally, comparators would have extension names of "comparator-<name>".
> 
> (3) Require Sieve implementations to map MIME header encodings to utf-8.
> This is probably the only way to reasonably do international searching.
> Tim, you should be able to use code from the Cyrus IMAP server for this.
> 
> (4) Language tagging probably isn't necessary in Sieve itself since it
> doesn't display strings.  Probably need a way to include a
> "Content-Language" header in reply messages, however.
> 

Speaking of which, has Harald caught up with this stuff yet as promised?

- mw

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