On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Markus Scherer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Mark Davis ☕ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That being true, I wish that industry could come to consensus about >> requiring everything outside of a well-defined, backwards-compatible set of >> characters to be expressed as UTF-8 percent-escaped characters in these >> fields when they are expressed as plaintext. >> > > If there is not already a convention for percent-escaped UTF-8 in email > addresses, then please let's not add one like that but rather escape *code > points*. > > markus > In my own trials, percent-escaped utf-8 does not work for the local part of the email. I found that only raw bytes (utf8 in my case) work acceptably.
