At 5:10 PM +0100 12/7/08, Per Jessen wrote:
You cannot have 8bit characters to the left of the @ in the email address.
I'm not sure that's correct. I distinctly remember Paul Hoffman, the director of the Internet Mail Consortium (http://www.imc.org/) saying that the left side of the @ has always been open to whatever characters you want to use. I was attending the IDNS WG as they created PUNYCODE when he made that statement.
Now maybe you can use anything you want, but it doesn't mean that it will be translated correctly.
The same really goes for the same on the right hand side of the @, but some people have difficulties distinguishing between the _actual_ email address and it may be rendered when the domain part is converted from punycode. The actual email address might be alfons.aaberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That's correct. The "xn--" is the prefix for PUNYCODE. Previous algorithms (AMC, RACE, etc.) used other prefixes.
After all is said and done, these were just ways to use 7 bit characters (unfortunately, the default for the Internet) to assemble/represent 8 bit characters.
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