[UA-discuss] HTML now allows EAI in address validation

[Chaals McCathie Nevile]

I landed the change [1] in the last Working Draft earlier this month:  
https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-html53-20180206/

(But I forgot to say so here)

The key bit is
[[[
A valid e-mail address is defined in [[!RFC6531]].

A user agent should present and consume unicode text in the user  
interface, and expose it to other applications, except when sending to a  
Mail Transfer Agent that does not support SMPTUTF8 [[RFC6531]].
]]] - https://w3c.github.io/html/sec-forms.html#valid-e-mail-address

Thanks to all those who helped make this happen. Review is still  
appreciated - the timeline is to freeze this draft for a W3C  
Recommendation in early May, so before then is a good time to provide it.

We will also be looking for implementation information - basically  
applications, sites, etc that work with EAI addresses, so pointers are  
welcome.

[1]  
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/873ec12901a1abcd0548c1a3230beadf84c79895

cheers

Chaals

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