Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

Martin Duerst <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <4.2.0.58.J.20030228173123.05716328@localhost>
At 00:00 03/02/28 +0000, Claus Faerber wrote:

>So it's ok if someone in Greece can't write down the email address of a
>friend in Japan on paper?

It's okay that someone in Greece can't write down an email with
Japanese characters. It's okay that somebody in Greece doesn't
understand Japanese. Would be nice if we could change that,
but that won't happen soon.


>Although most people will continue to have ASCII-only addresses in
>addition to their non-ASCII addresses, they won't switch the From line
>every time they mail foreign people.

They won't want to do that. Tools will do that for them, pretty easily.

Regards,    Martin.
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