bug#21733: 25.0.50; Umlaut in address makes smtpmail-via-smtp fail

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> This uses a command-line tool (part of libidn) to do the actual
>> decoding, I don't know how feasible it would be to do it in pure elisp.
>
> Yes, Emacs should definitely support IDNA addresses out of the box.  How
> hard can it be to create an all-Elisp IDNA library, I wonder?

Not very.  I've slapped together a basic IDNA encoding library now.
Clean up and document tomorrow, I think.

But I guess the question remains where the encoding should be done.  I
think this is up to the Mail User Agent?  So it would in any case be
wrong for smtpmail to touch this...

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