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Re: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?

From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:14:30 -0400
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010627161249.034feea0@brandenburg.com>
To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: John Harrison <jharrison@once.com>, "'discuss@apps.ietf.org'" <discuss@apps.ietf.org> 
At 04:04 PM 6/27/2001, Keith Moore wrote:
> > I'm researching an issue regarding whether international characters are
> > allowed in email addresses.
>
>no, they're not.  in all current mail standards email addresses must
>be entirely in ASCII.

well, we can be a bit friendlier to the topic, I think.  Only ASCII 
"characters" are permitted, however there is a standard that permits 
encoding international characters into an ASCII form.

So the pure negative is:  raw (binary) international characters are not 
permitted.
The positive is:  Encoded international characters are permitted.

d/


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