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In the future, we want to make it possible for you to use them to create Gmail accounts.” “Of course, this is just a first step and there’s still a ways to go. This means Gmail users can send emails to, and receive emails from, people who have these characters in their email addresses.”įuture accommodations will be made for other Google services on a case by case basis, he wrote.

Starting now, Gmail (and shortly, Calendar) will recognize addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters. In the meantime, Google’s Gmail service is adopting this capability now, he wrote.

The technology is there, but someone has to take the first step.” In order for this standard to become a reality, every email provider and every Website that asks you for your email address must adopt it. “In 2012, an organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) created a new email standard that supports addresses with non-Latin and accented Latin characters. So if your name (or that of your favorite pet) contains accented characters (like “José Ramón”) or is written in another script like Chinese or Devanagari, your email address options are limited.”Ĭhange, however, could be coming on a global scale, wrote Monferrer. And even fewer people use only the letters A-Z. The problem with that, he wrote, is that “less than half of the world’s population has a mother tongue that uses the Latin alphabet. “But from the start, email addresses have always required you to use non-accented Latin characters when signing up.” “Whether your email address is or something more expressive like an email address says something about who you are,” wrote Monferrer.

The new Gmail addressing capabilities were unveiled recently by Pedro Chaparro Monferrer, a Google software engineer, in a post on the Official Gmail Blog. Both developments make for the first time that Gmail can deal with non-Latin characters in email addresses, according to the company.

Gmail can now recognize email addresses that include characters with accents on a letter as well as characters in foreign languages. Google’s Gmail service is now changing that. Since the start of email, users with names that include accents on letters or that include characters in foreign languages have not been able to use them for messages.