How to create an imap folder, where the folder name is in Cyrillic?

Question

Python

Hello, I'm trying to create an imap folder, there are no problems with ascii characters, but if I try to use Cyrillic, then nothing happens. Python 3.5, imaplib library

M.create('INBOX.папка')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 6-10: ordinal not in range(128)

M.create('INBOX.папка'.encode('utf-8'))

imaplib.error: CREATE command error: BAD [b'Error in IMAP command CREATE: 8bit data in atom (0.001 + 0.000 secs).']

Answer 1

IMAP uses UTF-7 encoding (namely 7, not 8).

Answer 2

M.create('"INBOX.папка"')
try inside double quotes