Email Addresses With Non-Latin Characters Now Work in Gmail

Many of the world's languages don't use the Latin alphabet, yet email is dominated by the letters A to Z.

Google wants that to change. The company announced it's adding support for non-Latin characters and accented letters to Gmail

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This change means people with email addresses containing letters not in the English alphabet, or those with accents, will be able to send and receive emails through Gmail. However, you still can't create a Gmail address with those characters.

Google software engineer Pedro Chaparro Monferrer, who announced the change in a blog post, said the company is making the change in accordance with an email standard created by The Internet Engineering Task Force, with the hope it will be adopted by other providers to become a universal standard. Read more...

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