{"id":22390,"date":"2014-08-15T19:24:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=22390"},"modified":"2014-08-15T19:24:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:24:30","slug":"global-email-in-gmail-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/15\/global-email-in-gmail-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Global email in Gmail. Bad idea."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gmail blog<\/a> reports that Google is working on a more global email. \u00a0The first step is internationalized email addresses, like this:<\/p>\n

\"internationalized_email_address\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As someone who worked in international environments for years, I strongly dislike this idea. \u00a0There is a whole array of issues related to this: readability of the email address (yes, read it!), display issues (do you have the font with all the necessary characters?), writing email address (searching through the addressbook, for example), or even copy-pasting an email address (have you tried copy-pasting something English strings from Hebrew or Arabic documents? \u00a0Now you’ll be copy-pasting international email addresses from English documents – so much fun!). \u00a0On top of that, all the usual things related to SPAM filters, trust issues (is this a company, free email hosting, or a personal domain?), etc. \u00a0Can you spell out this email address over a phone? \u00a0How about typing it on the mobile phone? \u00a0Do you even know in which language it is?<\/p>\n

Using non-accented\u00a0Latin characters is a pain for all those people who don’t speak English. \u00a0But it worked nonetheless for the last few decades. \u00a0Now we are heading towards the future, where that pain won’t be limited to those who don’t read English, but to everyone. \u00a0As you can’t really learn all the languages of the world, or control which language email addresses are making it into your inbox. \u00a0Remember, that just because the email address is in a given language, it doesn’t mean that the content of the email is in the same language.<\/p>\n

On top of that, we’ve tried that already with the international URLs. \u00a0See how well that worked out. \u00a0Yeah, some people sure use them. \u00a0But try copy-pasting this URL around and I guarantee you’ll end up with a whole bunch of long and cumbersome escaped strings. \u00a0The same or similar fate will hit the emails…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Gmail blog reports that Google is working on a more global email. \u00a0The first step is internationalized email addresses, like this: As someone who worked in international environments for years, I strongly dislike this idea. \u00a0There is a whole array of issues related to this: readability of the email address (yes, read it!), display issues … Continue reading Global email in Gmail. Bad idea.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[72,1985,243,1279,334],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-email","tag-google-gmail","tag-language","tag-translations","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10692,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/06\/google-bits\/","url_meta":{"origin":22390,"position":0},"title":"Google bits","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here we go again - some more Google love. 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