There's no "I" in IDN, part 17: EAI made it to China, and everybody knows it!

by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2013/09/13 07:01 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2013/09/13/10448110.aspx

Previous blogs in this series:

• part 16: It's a good thing they decided to call it EAI!
• part 15: Still no 'I' in EAI.... but we could use an US sometime soon!
• part 14: It turns out there's no 'I' in IE, either
• part 13: Desktop and Managed and Metro; oh my!
• part 12: Emoji + IDN == U+1F4A9 (PILE OF POO)
• part 11: There's no place like ::1, not even 127.0.0.1!
• part 10: Who needs IDN support? How much? When? (Part 2)
• part 9: Who needs IDN support? How much? When? (Part 1)
• part 8: Punycode don't do the PUA
• part 7: IDN comes to AdWords 
• part 6: It isn't like there's an "I" in EAI, either!
• part 5: Stephen Colbert's job is not in any jeopardy
• part 4: the 'path' to Hell is paved with IDN bugs
• part 3: There's no 'I' in DIY, either!
• part 2: Try not to use the wrong functions!
• part 1: If you're not Unicode, you're just wrong!

Now you've heard me talk about IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) and EAI (Email Address Internationalization) before.

With more domains in China and Russia and India and Saudi Arabia and other places throughout the world that are outside of ASCII, the need to support those domains has never been more important.

Perhaps you sensed a disturbance in the force when I did.

But if you were in Redmond, WA on April 26, 2013, you might have heard my head explode.

The announcement in Chinese was at:

http://www.icoremail.cn/about_trends_info_359.html

Or translated via Bing (if your Chinese is rusty):

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=zh-chs&to=en&a=http://www.icoremail.cn/about_trends_info_359.html

Basically, the announcement was that version 3.0 of Coremail XT (a product with over 600,000 users worldwide) supports EAI, and is the first product that has been announced to the world with that support.

And what does that have to do with the future? For Microsoft?

Maybe nothing.

But the IETF (the Internet Engineering Task Force) and a lot of people and companies are thinking they might be looking at what the next iteration of their products will have to contain to remain competitive....EAI support?

Michael S. Kaplan on 13 Sep 2013 5:39 PM:

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