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Re: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?

From: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:27:11 -0700
To: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>, Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
cc: Eric Brunner-Williams <wampum@maine.rr.com>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
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--On 01-06-28 10.15 -0400 Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
<brunner@nic-naa.net> wrote:

> Concerning an implementation
> of (sendmail) the requirements for header processing? Concering MTAs
> generally and 8-bit processing?

You at least need to either agree on a charset to use, or negotiation of
charset. Compare MIME spec with current IDN discussions. And, 8 bits are
not enough today for many charsets (including UTF-8).

 paf

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