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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. Good luck by Pascal+Sartoretti · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My e-mail address ends with the suffix ".name". It is perfectly correct (even if not common), but I still sometimes have issues today because some stupid website has an outdated regular expression which says that ".name" is not correct.

    Now imagine this with non-latin characters (or just non-ASCII characters)... If you only write to people also using GMail, it might work.

    1. Re:Good luck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      My e-mail address ends with the suffix ".name". It is perfectly correct (even if not common), but I still sometimes have issues today because some stupid website has an outdated regular expression which says that ".name" is not correct.

      Now imagine this with non-latin characters (or just non-ASCII characters)... If you only write to people also using GMail, it might work.

      Well well well.

      Imagine that.

      Google is walling off their garden...

      Could that be considered, oh, maybe, EVIL?