Re: smtpmail support of unicode passwords

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:55:29 +0200 (CEST)
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <address@hidden>
> 
> Poking around a little more in RFC4616, I see a reference to SASLprep
> (RFC 4013) and StringPrep (RFC 3454). Apparently, the correct
> normalization is NFKC; however, that is considered optional, and
> reading between the lines a bit, I think this normalization, if done
> at allo, is intended to happen in the server – just prior to computing
> the hash.
> 
> If I have that right, TRT on the client side is to just pass the
> string through unchanged. Which is a relief.

Thanks for looking into it.

> Apologies for not doing this small bit of research before raising the
> issue.

No need for apologies.