IDN email

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An Internationalized Domain Name email (IDN email) is an email address that supports languages that contain non-ASCII script such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic. In this respect, email addresses can be represented in any language.

Traditional email addresses are presented in a format limited to the English language: use of ASCII character set. [1]

On Tuesday August 5th, 2014 Google announced that Gmail address would be implementing IDN emails. [2]

In Aug 2016, XgenPlus software announced IDN mailbox in 7 languages on .bharat (भारत) domains[3].

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