RE: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?

I guess Dave was referring to RFC2047.

However, RFC2047 expressly forbids using the encoded strings in address
specifications.

-d

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Harrison [mailto:jharrison@once.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: 'Dave Crocker'; Keith Moore
> Cc: 'discuss@apps.ietf.org'
> Subject: RE: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?
>
>
> Thanks, Dave,
>
> Where might I go to find more information on the standard you mentioned
> below?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:15 PM
> To: Keith Moore
> Cc: John Harrison; 'discuss@apps.ietf.org'
> Subject: Re: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?
>
>
> 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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