Re: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?

--On 01-06-28 10.15 -0400 Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
<brunner@nic-naa.net> wrote:

> Concerning an implementation
> of (sendmail) the requirements for header processing? Concering MTAs
> generally and 8-bit processing?

You at least need to either agree on a charset to use, or negotiation of
charset. Compare MIME spec with current IDN discussions. And, 8 bits are
not enough today for many charsets (including UTF-8).

 paf

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