Re: [VCARDDAV] IDN in EMAIL

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Fri, 05 November 2010 13:48 UTC

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On 2010-11-04 20:51, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> I think my preference is to say that utf-8 email address components are
> allowed. Client will need to properly encode those when used
> over-the-wire. However, putting IDN encoded email addresses in too
> should be just fine. So I say prefer utf-8, but idn/eai encoded is OK.

So are you saying we should go back to a free-form text value?

Is there an equivalent of addr-spec somewhere that allows UTF-8?

Simon
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