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by thaumasiotes 4335 days ago
I admit I don't understand the downvote. Email already has internationalization in the same sense as weibo does. You might receive email from me as 'From: Michael Watts <i.made.this.up@hotmail.com>'; the email address doesn't support arbitrary characters, but the name does (I've received email from '"=?gb18030?B?w8DIy7nY?=" <XXXXXXXXX@qq.com>', which worked out to a displayed name of 美人关). Similarly, if I wanted to display 美人关 as my handle on weibo, I could do that, but I wouldn't be able to use it to identify my account.