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Re:Dotless Domains by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:50AM (#43951926)
Both parts are limited to 7-bit ASCII or a subset thereof. Emojis have to be in punycode. You could theoretically use UTF-7 for the local-part but nothing supports it in practice.
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Re:Dotless Domains by qingcharles on Monday May 12, 2025 @01:31PM (#43965475)
That's the spec, for sure! The domains are converted to punycode, but the usernames? I have no idea what happens to them. My tests showed some providers delivered them, some didn't. I'm sure there are a bunch of people out there using accented characters and CJK etc in their usernames and wondering why it's not going so well...
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