596233 - Accept unicode email addresses

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Sync, defect, P5)

Description

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

The setup wizard should accept unicode email addresses. That means the email addresses need to be UTF-8 encoded before being uploaded to the server in Weave.Service.createAccount() and before hashing the value to compute the username.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

This is WONTFIX in the BrowserID Sync world.

I wonder if BID supports unicode email addresses...

Comment 2

[David Chan [:dchan]]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #1)
> I wonder if BID supports unicode email addresses...

From talking to lloyd on #identity, the current browserid frontend would reject the email address. [1] However I couldn't find anything the in protocol spec that disallowed unicode. Assuming the backend supports unicode, there shouldn't be a problem.


[1] - https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/blob/dev/resources/static/shared/validation.js#L9

Comment 3

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

Dchan, there is an open ticket for unicode support in bid, but the bid folks do not seem super convinced it is worthwhile?

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1294

philikon: is there a sample unicode email address I can throw at them? ^