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- On Wed, 02 Sep 92 13:17:39 JST, hitoaki@mahler.ntt.jp wrote:
- > What is the policy of internatinalization for IMAP2 ?
- >
- > I think the imprementation of the IMAP2 search facility considerablly
- > affrects the internatinalization of IMAP2. If this facility is not
- > well-designed , IMAP2 can't be multilingual.
-
- Konnichi ha -
-
- I don't remember if you were at the meeting at NTT-ECL in Musashino with
- Nojima-san last July, but the upshot of this question was that IMAP2bis does
- not address any of the questions of expanding the search facility.
-
- I was not aware of the international character set problem until it was
- explained to me at this meeting; I now know and understand the problem quite
- well. You have my promise that any changes to the search facility in IMAP2
- will definitely address this question.
-
- Changes to search will probably happen in the next wave of extensions to
- IMAP2 (IMAP2tres????). I think we'll be starting on that once we get our
- IMAP2bis implementations up to speed.
-
- I did request during the meeting, if NTT would experiment a bit so I can
- learn from NTT of NTT's experience of what would be a good mechanism for
- search of kanji. I think that the strings have to be labelled with the
- character sets (using the same name as the charsets for content-type TEXT),
- and that for the case of ISO-2022-JP the only comparison that makes sense is
- to convert both strings to Shift-JIS before comparison (otherwise the ESC
- codes will be troublesome). Also, you can't use case-independent matching
- with ISO-2022-JP.
-
- -- Mark --
-
-