With a step that is coming to launch the "global" emails, Google announced that the services gmailAnd Calendar they will soon begin to recognize e-mail addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters.
Google has adopted an e-mail template, the RFC 6530, created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in February of 2012. This template will allow Gmail users to send and receive emails from people who have highlighted and non-Latin characters on their email addresses.
"Less than half of the world's population uses the Latin alphabet as their mother tongue. And even fewer people use letters without any tones. So if your name contains bold characters (such as "José Ramón" for example) or is written in another language, such as Chinese or Devanagari, your email address options are limited, "says Google. blog of. "All of this can change."
The company also hopes that in the future, it will be possible for users to use these characters when they create Gmail accounts.
IETF technology introduces a set of specifications with new mechanisms and protocol extensions that enable fully-automated internal e-mail addresses. These changes will allow the SMTP extension and the header syntax extension to host the data in UTF-8.
"Language should not be a barrier to connecting with others, and with this step we will make global e-mail a reality," Google said.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
