attempt 1 to learn Unicode (unifuncs)

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 06:04:39PM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> I call this branch "unifuncs". It introduce the "uni" module with simple
> functions handling the encoding conversions.
> 
> I don't expect a full review. It's large and quiet boring sometime. The more
> intersting parts are the patches 1/4 and 3/4.
> 
> The diffs online: https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap/compare/OfflineIMAP:next...ns/unifuncs?expand=1
> The branch TIP: https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap/commits/ns/unifuncs
> 
> [PATCH 1/4] docs: API: introduce unicode module
> [PATCH 2/4] add IMAPClient embedded module to work with IMAP UTF-7
> [PATCH 3/4] introduce utils/uni.py module
> [PATCH 4/4] learn unicode support

Well, I realize that in this case, patches are good for comments, not
much to review. Here are the online files that interested people should
read:

API: https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap/blob/ns/unifuncs/docs/doc-src/API.rst#id23

uni: https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap/blob/ns/unifuncs/offlineimap/utils/uni.py

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Nicolas Sebrecht