Nope, they can not. Only comment and phrase parts of addr_spec can, but address itself can not.
However, may be soon we'll see international domains and situation could be changed, but at this point I think it's better to stick with ASCII. Smaller fields - smaller indexes - smaller DB. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Mathieu Longtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at the RT3.8 mysql upgrade script, I found out that most email > address fields are set to be ASCII characters only: > > > > ALTER TABLE Users MODIFY EmailAddress VARBINARY(120) NULL DEFAULT NULL; > > ALTER TABLE Users MODIFY EmailAddress VARCHAR(120) CHARACTER SET ascii NULL > DEFAULT NULL; > > > > This strike me as odd, since email address can contain international > characters, AFAIK. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > -- > > Mathieu Longtin > > Bureau: 1-514-270-7762x230 > > Portable: 1-514-803-8977 > > www.dbsoft.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users > > Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com > Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. > Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com > -- Best regards, Ruslan. _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
