UTF-8 history (2003)

Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by Pulletwee12549 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:37AM (#21212861)

Nice post, quite interesting.

I think Rob Pike may have one of the coolest email addresses in the world ([email protected]).

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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by mci on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:42AM (#21215822)

Back when I worked at Google, a friend of mine got an unpleasant email from r@ because his Python script had a bug: it sent alerts to the individual characters of [email protected]

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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by oh_sigh on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:26AM (#21213618)

I've heard his email causes issues for tons of internal systems at Google because a lot are coded with the expectation of a minimum of 3 characters for the left part of the email. May just be urban legend though.

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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:04PM (#21216095)

Do "+" suffixes work for google.com addresses? Is [email protected] the same account?

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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by anticensor on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:36PM (#21217737)

Yes and no. Yes, they belong to the same employee; no, each google.com mailbox needs to be approved, they are not automatically redirected unlike regular GMail addresses.

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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by fanf2 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:54PM (#21220376)

I beg to differ

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