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Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters

Posted by timothy on from the germanic-frankish-anything dept.

An anonymous reader writes In response to the creation in 2012 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) of "a new email standard that supports addresses incorporating non-Latin and accented Latin characters", Google has now made it possible for its Gmail users to "send emails to, and receive emails from, people who have these characters in their email addresses." Their goal is to eventually allow its users to create Gmail addresses utilizing these characters.

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  1. Next wave of phishing? by CRC'99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the next lot of phishing will come from: róót@gmail.com / Àdministrator@gmail.com or BìllGàtes@gmail.com etc?

    Great.

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    1. Re:Next wave of phishing? by Megane · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think ròót@gmail.com is a better choice because it looks angry.

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  2. Metal umlaut! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally I can get motörhead@gmail.com!

  3. Re:Sigh by hawkinspeter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope, there's four options:

    Accept it.
    Reject it.
    Temporary failure, try again later.
    User not local, will forward to <somewhere>.
    Syntax error, command unrecognised.

    Wait, I'll come in again...

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