[ilugd] Re: [LIH]eight bit email addresses

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
I am trying to send a email where the userid has a eight bit character
in it. I assume it is in ISO-8859-1 but in future it could be in UTF-8
too.
these are rfc illegal
while madörin_ol [EMAIL PROTECTED] is legal - and the stuff 
within the  would get encoded somehow, the actual email address cannot 
have high ascii / 8 bit characters in it.

srs
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[ilugd] Re: [LIH]eight bit email addresses

[Mithun Bhattacharya]

But hasnt ICANN agreed to allow eight bit domain names ? If that is
true then basically I can have a domain name but not a email address ?


Mithun

--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 these are rfc illegal
 
 while madörin_ol [EMAIL PROTECTED] is legal - and the stuff 
 within the  would get encoded somehow, the actual email address
 cannot 
 have high ascii / 8 bit characters in it.



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[ilugd] Re: [LIH]eight bit email addresses

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
But hasnt ICANN agreed to allow eight bit domain names ? If that is
true then basically I can have a domain name but not a email address ?
the smtp spec hasnt been modified
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