I looked up the RFC. The document lists itself as a "proposed standard" [1] so it's not really available yet for general use (but correct me if wrong). I propose that an enhancement should be made in JIRA to handle this.
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6531 Cheers, Paul On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Miguel Almeida <mig...@almeida.at> wrote: > This is the regex for email validation in Struts: > > \\b^['_a-z0-9-\\+]+(\\.['_a-z0-9-\\+]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\\.[a-z0-9-]+)\* > \.([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|asia|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|mobi| > museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|tel|travel|xxx)$\\b > > I had a report of this failing for a user with an umlaut email > ( shläg...@example.com ). My regex is not very good, but the above > mentioned regex doesn't seem to allow said characters. > > However, International characters above U+007F are permitted by RFC > 6531 : > > http://sphinx.mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate > > > > What is your view on this? Could this regex be incorrect and miss out > any special characters? > > Miguel Almeida > >
