[Bug 11579] Support for internationalized e-mail addresses

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11579

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #17 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-08-06 03:43:41 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: 

(In reply to comment #12)
> Currently, websites using <input type='text'> get UTF-8 e-mail addresses so
> they obviously know how to handle them.

I assure you that's not a given. I would expect that any scripts I've written,
if given non-ASCII e-mail addresses, will either crash or complain. I haven't
tested other systems but I wouldn't be surprised to find similar results.

As I said in comment 10: If my assumption is wrong, I'm happy to change the
spec. File another bug for that *with evidence* that typical servers won't be
screwed up if they naïvely pass IDN to their mail subsystems.

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