Re: Non-latin email addresses dangerous?

[Doug Royer <Doug@xxxxxxxxx>]

We need to separate the email address from the users name
as it exists currently in the 'From' (and other) headers.

Which is why I think that Nathaniel  said in part:

   ...
     -- Cleaner separation of header, envelope, and body
   ...

Charset translation is not a big deal  on most platforms.
Separate the user name part from the email address
in the headers-ng. After that you can read and understand
the 'name' or not. And your MUA can display the 'name'
or not.  And it allows the email address to be a ID or tag
that can be  transitioned into 8-bits without breaking
user names.

> If you have ever looked at business cards of people in such regions, 
> that's
> exactly what they do. Not because they want it that way, but because they
> know that their customers appreciate it. The main piece of 'innovation'
> that you need in order for this to work with email are some clever ways
> of sending MUAs to figure out which sender address to use, so that they
> don't use a non-latin one when they send you email. The rest of the
> problem is mostly pure mechanics, although before we use it, it has
> to be written up.
>
> Regards,    Martin.

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