Re: [I18ndir] HTML, email addresses, etc

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

Yes.  Thanks.  I keep thinking about what goes over the wire,
but you are absolutely correct.

   john

  

--On Saturday, June 13, 2020 15:20 +0900 "Martin J. Dürst"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 11/06/2020 19:45, John C Klensin wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> --On Thursday, June 11, 2020 16:25 +0900 "Martin J. Dürst"
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>>>> On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 11:46:31PM -0400, John C Klensin
>>>> wrote:
> 
>>>> (2) As to whether we should give them a rule or regular
>>>> expression to associate with the new type that goes much
>>>> beyond
>>>>      bunch-of-octets-for-local-part@bunch-of-octets-for-dom
>>>>      ain -part I rather doubt it.
>>> 
>>> Please let's make that *at least*
>>> 
>>> bunch-of-characters-for-local-part@bunch-of-characters-for-d
>>> om ain-part
>> 
>> I assume that, in the above, "character" means "Unicode code
>> point in UTF-8".
> 
> Yes, with the caveat that it might not actually be in UTF-8
> because e.g. the browser internally uses UTF-16.
> 
> Regards,   Martin.
> 
>> Fine with me.  I used "octets" only because,
>> following a variation on what I think was the argument Nico
>> was making, I didn't want to impose a requirement for
>> validation on the browser (or other HTML interpreter).
>> 
>> best,
>>     john