[nebul]

My first name contains an accented e, and what the computer will spit out is a crapshoot: é, e, é, é or just a plain blank square. It makes me want to buy an internationalised domain name out of spite.

[jeroenhd]

Internationalised domain names will display fine because they are punycode that browsers and other clients happen to render as internationalised domains.

E-mail is even worse than web applications at this because even common and popular mail clients can't do UTF-8 in email addresses right (https://www.google.com/search?q="SMTPUTF8"+site%3Adovecot.or...).

[nebul]

In my experience Punycode support in browsers varies greatly depending on the phishing[1] mitigations in place, making them quite unreliable in practice unfortunately.

I'm pleasantly surprised about SMTPUTF8 being a thing though. Yeah nobody uses it, but I thought email had zero UTF-8 support so it's at least better than nothing, I guess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Homograph...

[GoblinSlayer]

SMTPUTF8 is about unicode email addresses. I think, UTF-8 messages have wide support.

[nebul]

Sorry, I was indeed talking about Unicode email addresses but I worded it poorly. Thanks for the precision!