> unless you’re working on an email server? We are talking about email software, inclusive of servers, clients, plugins, etc. It's literally the example I'm o

> unless you’re working on an email server? We are talking about email software, inclusive of servers, clients, plugins, etc. It's literally the example I'm offering (but there are neigh infinite others) > Send the email and have the user validate it. I But I haven't proposed a problem of validating an email. Besides, even if the problem is validating an email this is not necessarily a workable answer. > Even if you’re working on an email server, you shouldn’t be touching that code unless it’s broken A lot of the arguments supporting unicode seem to boil down to acknowledging that all these things are broken, yet disregarding them because the problems exist at a more technical level than most of HN commenters are familiar with. You might not write this kind of software for a living, but some of us do and we know that these interfaces are not good.