Gmail supports sending and receiving with e-mail addresses including non-alphabetic characters such as Japanese

Google announced today that it will correspond to sending and receiving with e-mail addresses using non-alphabet characters including Japanese.

Official Google Blog: A first step toward more global email
http://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html

Traditionally, letters that can be used as a mail address are only Latin letters (alphabet) from A to Z. When non-alphabet is used, it can not be recognized from Gmail, and sending and receiving of mail was impossible. Improving this situation, Google has made it possible for Gmail to recognize Japanese, Chinese, Latin special characters with accent, etc. For example, you can receive mail from the mail address "Wu @ Mail.Google", and you will be able to send mail to such an e-mail address.


In addition, Google said last month that Chinese for Hong Kong people, French for Canadians, Zulu used in South AfricaMake Gmail correspond to local language / minority languageWe are promoting correspondence to various languages, and it seems that it can be said that the same policy is also applied to the display of e-mail addresses.

ByAston Leisen

Of course, in order for mail addresses using such non-alphabetical characters to become common, it seems that they will not benefit soon, as non-Google mail services need to correspond to non-alphabetic characters .

As Google acknowledges, it is undoubtedly a mountain to be overcome to be able to use non-alphabetical mail addresses around the world, but as Google, which leads the Internet business, becomes a flag swinger, It is where the other companies are concerned about whether the correspondence to the non-alphabet character mail address will follow at a glance or whether anybody will not keep up with it.