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I had to reread some bits to figure out that they are talking about email addresses which MailChimp fails on if they contain non-ASCII UTF-8 characters in the u
by Freak_NL 9y ago
I had to reread some bits to figure out that they are talking about email addresses which MailChimp fails on if they contain non-ASCII UTF-8 characters in the user part of the address, not the actual email message.
For some reason this person calls an email address an email.
- atomical 9y agoWhy is that important?
- Freak_NL 9y agoThat blog post makes no sense until you substitute email for email address — non-ASCII UTF-8 characters in the body of an email is no problem provided the right encoding is used. Perhaps other readers will find that useful to figure out the intended message.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y ago> substitute email for email address Language nitpick: that should be the other way around, for meaning roughly instead of in this expression. I guess this might be going the way of comprised of and the like (once considered a clear error, but now so widespread that it's considered pedantic to reject it).
- 1_2__4 9y agoYou should be downvoted, you're right and the order they used is wrong and requires your brain to rearrange it. If op wanted to use that ordering they should have used "with" in place of "for".
- TeMPOraL 9y agoMaybe English is not their first language? In Poland, for example, it's common to use the word "e-mail" when one means "e-mail address", e.g. "give me your e-mail".