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Re: Mail addresses and extended character sets

2001-06-25 09:12:25

In <200106222141(_dot_)RAA12569(_at_)astro(_dot_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> Keith 
Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:


Has any thought been given to how such charsets will appear in mail
addresses?

yes, folks in the IDN group have talked about it.  since there's
already a need to encode characters that appear on the right hand
side of an @ sign in ASCII (because there are so many applications
that assume that domain names are ASCII), it might be that the same
encoding convention (or a similar one) will work on the left hand 
side of an @ signs.  

Fine! Please can you point me to whichever of the umpteen IDN drafts
addresses this particular issue?

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