RE: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?

Thanks, Keith.

So if I received an email address with the following:

	david.garcía.arregui@xxxx.com

it would be incorrect?

The accented í is in fact an ASCII character, it is included in ASCII 8 I
believe and definitely ISO Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1), not ASCII 7. The example
above is a real email address that I received from someone -- thus my state
of confusion.

Thanks for your assistance.

-John

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:04 PM
To: John Harrison
Cc: 'discuss@apps.ietf.org'
Subject: Re: Are international characters allowed in email addresses? 


> I'm researching an issue regarding whether international characters are
> allowed in email addresses.

no, they're not.  in all current mail standards email addresses must
be entirely in ASCII.

Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2001 16:08:55 UTC