- From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:14:30 -0400
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: John Harrison <jharrison@once.com>, "'discuss@apps.ietf.org'" <discuss@apps.ietf.org>
At 04:04 PM 6/27/2001, Keith Moore wrote: > > 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. well, we can be a bit friendlier to the topic, I think. Only ASCII "characters" are permitted, however there is a standard that permits encoding international characters into an ASCII form. So the pure negative is: raw (binary) international characters are not permitted. The positive is: Encoded international characters are permitted. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.273.6464
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