Seems like someone wanted to use the standards compliant functionality for validating e-mails: I made a PR here : https://gitea.com/go-chi/binding/pulls/12 w

Seems like someone wanted to use the standards compliant functionality for validating e-mails: I made a PR here : https://gitea.com/go-chi/binding/pulls/12 which uses the stdlib net/mail (which is rfc5322 compliant) for validation But it was closed, because Gitea does not want to support with certain Unicode characters: Closed as it allows utf-8 Isn't the proper solution there to just add an additional validation afterwards, AFTER using the standard functionality, something like: if _, err := otherUtil.DisallowUnicode(fmt.Sprintf("%v", fieldValue)); err != nil { ... } Why close the pull request outright instead of just requesting that an additional validation against a set of disallowed characters be implemented? Of course, I get the feeling that the developers just don't want to support "odd" e-mail addresses, because it doesn't affect them personally. They might be using just firstname.lastname@provider.com, or somenickname@provider.com, instead of using tags (+), slashes or other such symbols. Ergo, they might not care, at least when there are other issues that need to be solved and worked on - this gets de-prioritized.