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        Title           : POP3 Support for UTF-8
        Author(s)       : C. Newman, R. Gellens
        Filename        : draft-ietf-eai-pop-04.txt
        Pages           : 14
        Date            : 2008-07-13

This specification extends the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)
to support un-encoded international characters in user names,
passwords, mail addresses, message headers, and protocol-level
textual error strings.

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[Bill McQuillan]

In the LANG examples, I noticed an oddity:

      < A LANG command with no arguments is a request for
      a language listing. >

      C: LANG
      S: +OK Language listing follows:
      S: en English
      S: en-boont English Boontling dialect
      S: de German
      S: it Italian
      S: i-default Default language
      S: .

I would have expected 3rd and 4th response lines to be:

      S: de Deutsch
      S: it italiano

This raises the issue of what language should the "human readable
description of that language" be in.

I could imagine:

1 - the server's preferred language
2 - the language itself
3 - i-default
4 - the current language

Since the "human" most likely to read the "description" is the user trying
to find a language s/he understands, I vote for #2.

Also #4 might be combinatorily difficult.  ;-)

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[Randall Gellens]

At 3:51 PM -0700 7/13/08, Bill McQuillan wrote:

>  In the LANG examples, I noticed an oddity:
>
>        < A LANG command with no arguments is a request for
>        a language listing. >
>
>        C: LANG
>        S: +OK Language listing follows:
>        S: en English
>        S: en-boont English Boontling dialect
>        S: de German
>        S: it Italian
>        S: i-default Default language
>        S: .
>
>  I would have expected 3rd and 4th response lines to be:
>
>        S: de Deutsch
>        S: it italiano
>
>  This raises the issue of what language should the "human readable
>  description of that language" be in.
>
>  I could imagine:
>
>  1 - the server's preferred language
>  2 - the language itself
>  3 - i-default
>  4 - the current language
>
>  Since the "human" most likely to read the "description" is the user trying
>  to find a language s/he understands, I vote for #2.
>
>  Also #4 might be combinatorily difficult.  ;-)

Hi Bill,

Good to see you still active in this stuff.

This is a good point, and one I'm inclined to agree with.  The text
already says that the language listing uses UTF-8.

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