From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 04:38:59 CDT
In <3CB708F2.533B199@ehsco.com> "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> writes:
>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.
Can you point me at that "Punycode encoding".
And do the IDN WG intend to allow UTF-8, or some other encoding of
Unicode, as one of the options available for use by applications?
>> 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?
The problem is that posting- and injecting-agents will generate them
automatically, as in
To: df-test-utf8-זרו@moderators.isc.org
(well, if that group had been moderated).
Hopefully, the IDN WG, or the Mail people, will eventually decide the
proper way to send that. I was just asking whether there were any pointers
to the likely solution yet.
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