Comment 19 for bug 265016

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In , Momoi (momoi) wrote :

(In reply to comment #18)
> > For web page URLs, not for e-mail addresses.
>
> Who forbid this?

All the standards for IDN in web domain names are now in place. It makes sense
to officially support it. The e-mail address part is under discussion now. No
credible mail service will be implementing it. I'm saying that we should be very
careful before we start generating msgs with such a temporary status of the
proposal(s). Given the current state of the use of non-ASCII e-mail addresses, I
see no reason to rush. Perhaps it is not a bad idea to put in some codes now to
eventually deal with it, but I would like to caution against generating e-mail
messages without more progress on the standards for it.