Re: [apps-discuss] Mail client configuration via something, maybe WebFinger

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Wed, 10 February 2016 18:34 UTC

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John Levine writes:
> PS: Where it gets a lot hairier is with optional characters like dots
> in gmail names, optional suffixes like user+ext@domain or
> user-ext@domain, and the whole world of EAI and UTF-8 where I am sure
> there are all sorts of things that are obviously equivalent in some
> languages and not in others.

The EAI situation is better than you probably think, mostly because the 
unicode committee does very good work and the rest of the world is lucky 
that it does.

Arnt