https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34590
--- Comment #4 from Nicolas Brouard <nicolas.brou...@libertysurf.fr> 2012-02-24 16:20:18 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > By the way, can't email now be in non-ASCII characters too, as the > > domain name rules changed recently? > > Was just looking at this the other day for Bug 34491 > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Since the development of e-mails and VT200 we could have, locally, accented characters (8 bits characters) in e-mail aliases (in the local part of an e-mail before the @). I remember that it was even more important for user names ("not loosing our precious accented characters"), than the domain name which was usually written (in the real world) in uppercase and most of time without accents. But since that mid 80's, e-mails with accented characters did not work internationally and has been abandoned. Today, I know that the IDN project is closer to reality. But it is a transcription in ASCII of a UNICODE strings and it should not be a problem. And for example mailt...@xn--mgbh0fb.xn--kgbechtv is the Punycode (To-Ascii) transformation of the Arabic domain: mailtest@مثال.إختبار (see http://idn.icann.org/E-mail_test) With the attached patch installed, I discovered that when subscribing a new user having "Mail test" for username and mailt...@xn--fsqu00a.xn--g6w251d for its IDN To-ASCII formatted e-mail address, everythings works. But entering a new user with its IDN Unicode e-mail address mailtest@例子.測試 is not accepted yet by Mediawiki (it complains that the e-mail address is invalid). Thus, IDN doesn't seem to be an issue neither yet nor in the future. When the local part of an e-mail would be allowed to contain Unicode characters too, the To-Ascii form will always work. In this future world, people might still prefer enter an e-mail, like entêté@prosélytisme.fr instead of a pseudo like "Entêtement ou opiniâtreté" in order to authenticate on Wikipedia. The patch is a plus and would benefit to many many people. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
