On 3-feb-04, at 12:18, Paul Robinson wrote:
Why? Why not insist that all e-mail addresses should be accompanied
with a
chinese representation, or a russian address? What is so special about
the
latin character set?
You mean apart from the facts that it's most widely understood by
people, the most widely implemented in computers, and all
internet-relevant standards that use text rely on it?
A problem with having two variations of the same email address used
together: I'm afraid this may be an in for email abusers, similar to
the way you can spread a worm using a file called worm.jpg.vbs because
the user thinks she's opening a JPEG file while the system thinks it's
a visual basic script.