Posts Tagged ‘IDN mail’

Popular Mail Client will support IDN in a new version

Starting with the version 6.0 The Bat! supports IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) are the domain names that contain national alphabet characters. The names composed from the characters of the non-latin alphabets, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, etc., as well as the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics, such as French, German […]

Soon in a Mail Box Near You: Internationalized Email Addresses

The EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of email addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send email messages to non-7 bit ASCII addresses e.g. måtte@københavn.dk or 中国@中国.中国 . There are 3 RFCs, covering changes to the SMTP protocol, e-mail […]