- From: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:54:22 +0100
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>, "Forms WG" <public-forms@w3.org>
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:06:52 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Steven Pemberton > <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote: >> So as far as I can see, an internationalised email address is: >> >> address: atom-list "@" atom-list. >> atom-list: atom ( "." atom )* >> atom: C+ >> C: any character in the world EXCEPT (),.:;<>@[\] >> >> a) Do you agree? >> b) It was really hard to find this out. The internet is rife with people >> asking and getting bad answers. Please help the internet by being >> definitive. > > I recommend matching HTML's definition: > > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#valid-e-mail-address Unfortunately, that doesn't match our minimum requirement of accepting international addresses. Steven
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