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21859	clarify Django docs re: email addresses and ascii	Chris Jerdonek	nobody	"In looking into Django's handling of non-ascii characters in e-mail addresses, I found the following [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/unicode/#email here in the Email section of the Unicode data docs]--

  ""However, you’re still obligated to respect the requirements of the email specifications, so, for example, email addresses should use only ASCII characters.""

This may still be technically correct under some interpretation, but I think the wording should be clarified to avoid confusion, and because I think the full picture may be a bit more nuanced.  For example, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address Wikipedia article on email addresses] says, ""The local-part of the email address may use any of these ASCII characters RFC 5322 Section 3.2.3, RFC 6531 permits Unicode beyond the ASCII range"" (to include one part).  Also see the comments to ticket #14301, which reveal that there is probably more worth saying in the portion of the docs that I quoted.

I don't know if other parts of the Django docs say more on this aspect."	Bug	closed	Documentation	1.6	Normal	invalid	email,ascii,unicode	chris.jerdonek@…	Accepted	0	0	0	0	1	0