[Bug 11579] The valid-email address ABNF doesn't include IDN, so for it to work the value must be punycode (or at least converted to punycode when validating), but this isn't mentioned, except as an optional example ("User agents may transform the value for display a from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-01-18 (public-html-bugzilla@w3.org from January 2011)

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

--- Comment #3 from mercator+bugs@gmail.com 2011-01-18 13:35:33 UTC ---
Created attachment 944
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Test form with email input and IDN domain value.

Firefox 4 (beta 9) has added support for form field validation too I see now,
and it doesn't validate IDNs in e-mail addresses either.

I've added a simple form attachment to test.

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