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by kubanczyk 1392 days ago
A primer (taken straight from GP's first link):

> the full case foldings are superior: for example, they allow "MASSE" and "Maße" to match.

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This sounds like a fun vulnerability to find in a password reset flow
Yeah but isn't email address in ascii? I still have no idea why it would be different.
> isn't email address in ascii?

Yes in the basic SMTP RFC, but there are extensions that allow non-ascii local-parts.

Another falsehood to add to the list.