Re: Are international characters 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.  

I thought a succinct, complete, and accurate answer was the friendliest
possible.

> Only ASCII
> "characters" are permitted, however there is a standard that permits
> encoding international characters into an ASCII form.

only in human-readable text.  not in email addresses. 

Keith