From: Eric A. Hall (ehall@ehsco.com)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 11:18:58 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
> Has anyone been following the Internationalization of the DNS and can
> report here where they are up to? In particular, have they decided how
> an email address will look if it is to be sent to fred@site.example,
> where "fred" actually contains some Non-ASCII characters?
The IDN WG is specifically concerned with domain names as they are used by
applications. The IDN WG doesn't say anything about the mailbox part of
email addresses. Personally I would hazard the guess that the same
Punycode encoding will probably be used if the email people decide that
they want to add support for i18n mailbox names.
> This is a problem for us when mailing to the moderator of a newsgroup
> with a Non-ASCII newsgroup-name.
Under the current specs, i18n email addresses are not legal, so this isn't
currently a problem for mail. Why would somebody publish an email address
that isn't legal?
-- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/