On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:24 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > R. David Murray writes: > > > in the email address (and can't contain non-ASCII yet...we need RFC 6855 > > support for that, and I'm not sure *anybody* has that yet). > > If it's an RFC, *somebody* has it *somewhere*. :-)
Ah, it looks like you may be right. I didn't find any hits in the first few pages on Google; the closest I got was: https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/QBFibOEK5x4#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/QBFibOEK5x4 I started writing a response that said "if so, it is hidden from google". Then I did some deeper digging, and found this: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html So my search using the RFC number was just too narrow...since gmail is IMAP based, Google itself must have *some* sort of RFC 6855 support. (Unless they've done a hack job of this internationalization support that only works for their own gmail clients, which given my past experience working with the gmail IMAP API I would believe...although I think the IMAP problems I found were mostly bugs rather than intentional deviations from the standards). We had a GSOC student (Milan Oberkirch) working on international email support this past summer, and I believe you asked in the proposal review phase why working on support for these RFCs was apropos. At the time I was kind of hoping Python could kickstart development of internationalized email by providing tools to build experiments, but now that Google has announced support, supporting it has become surprisingly immediately relevant. (The previously experimental postfix support for RFC 6531 is targeted for official release in 2.12, which is another big step forward.) I'd better get to reviewing the rest of those patches sometime soon....they include a preliminary patch for RFC 6855. Unfortunately the email package itself doesn't handle RFC 6532 email and there's no proposed patch for that yet. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
