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Asked: 2026-05-18T20:39:58+00:00

I’m creating a database for a global application that stores data in multiple written

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I’m creating a database for a global application that stores data in multiple written languages. This means I am storing a lot of double-byte Unicode strings for various fields. But when storing E-mail addresses, does the internet only recognize single-byte ASCII characters in the address? If so, I could cut the size of this field in half, which would be a big performance boost in this case.

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  1. Editorial Team

    RFC 3490 proposes the use of unicode characters in domain names (which obviously make up the second part of an email address). So it would be wise to support this.

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