Re: Best practice of using regex on identify none-ASCII email address

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Markus Scherer <markus.icu_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Mark Davis ☕ <mark_at_macchiato.com> 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.
Received on Fri Nov 01 2013 - 18:03:52 CDT