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Re: UTF-7, is anyone on the world actually using that? I've only ever read about it in articles about security problems.
by wladimir 15y ago
Re: UTF-7, is anyone on the world actually using that? I've only ever read about it in articles about security problems.
- robin_reala 15y agoCertainly not on the web, it’s disallowed in the HTML5 spec: User agents must not support the CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU encodings. and major browsers removed support, e.g.: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414064 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414064
- dmbaggett 15y agoNot sure if this "counts," but it is still used to encode IMAP folder names. (Technically, the IMAP version is slightly different from standard UTF-7.)
- chimeracoder 15y agoI'm confused by that as well. I never really understood the motivation behind it - though I guess it's obsolescent, so hopefully it'll soon be just another one of those amusing anachronisms we see occasionally in computer science.
- eridius 15y agoAs I understand it, the motivation was to be able to transmit Unicode text over a channel that's only 7-bit safe (e.g. mail protocols) without having to do something silly like Base64-encoding the whole thing.