Re: [exim] Accented characters in email addresses

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Paul Walsh
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Accented characters in email addresses
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Paul Walsh wrote:
>
> I've had a request to set up an alias for a user whose name includes an acute
> accented e. I'm trying to find out how Exim handles such characters and how to
> store such an address in our MySQL database of external email addresses. Any
> pointers folks?


Email addresses are ascii-only at the moment, though you can have
internationalized "friendly names". The IETF is just starting to argue
about how to extend the email address format beyond ascii, so expect to
wait some years before applications support it.

Tony.
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