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Email Addresses With Non-Latin Characters Now Work In Gmail

Google wants to make owning non-Latin character email addresses possible in future

 

It is a known fact that most of the languages in the world don’t use Latin alphabets, but it is still surprising that the email is still dominated by letter from A to Z. In a radical move Google has announced that it was adding support from non-Latin characters to Gmail.

“Whether your email address is firstname.lastname@ or something more expressive like corgicrazy@, an email address says something about who you are. But from the start, email addresses have always required you to use non-accented Latin characters when signing up. Less than half of the world’s population has a mother tongue that uses the Latin alphabet,” said Pedro Chapparro, Software Engineer in the Official Blog of Google.

He also added, “And even fewer people use only the letters A-Z. 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.”

Even though these characters cannot be used to create a Gmail account, the company says that it wants to make it possible in future, thus making Gmail the global email a reality.  


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