[Bug 15489] IDN email addresses should be converted to Punycode before validating them

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15489

--- Comment #7 from Mathias Bynens <mathias@qiwi.be> 2012-01-12 06:54:28 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Ignore my previous comment. Ms2ger pointed out to me on IRC that the spec
> actually says, "User agents may transform the values for display and editing;
> in particular, user agents should convert punycode in the value to IDN in the
> display and vice versa."
> 
> So the spec is already stating what you want, right? That is, that IDN email
> addresses should be converted to Punycode before validating them.

The spec only mentions “for display and editing” (nothing about validation),
and uses “may” — not “must”.

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Received on Thursday, 12 January 2012 06:58:37 UTC