[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 #8 from Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> 2012-01-12 11:27:29 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> The spec only mentions “for display and editing” (nothing about validation),
> and uses “may” — not “must”.

Yeah, I also realize from discussion with Hixie on IRC that the IDN conversion
applies to user input only, and not to the contents of the "value" attribute.
That is, IDN e-mail addresses in the value attribute are invalid per the spec,
intentionally. For his rationale, see
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20120112#l-312

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Received on Thursday, 12 January 2012 11:31:40 UTC