Hi,

the problem is that the from address is an email header part. And in a header only ASCII is valid. That's the reason why only ASCII encoded strings can be valid. Therefore the word containing the non-ascii character é is encoded as =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Name?=.

When you take this byte string into the validation routine everything is fine. So, IMHO, the solution must be that you encode the unicode string representing the email address in a valid ascii representation.

#!/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

use Email::Valid;
use Data::Dumper;
use Encode qw(encode decode);

my $utf8_from = decode('UTF-8', 'José <J.name@web.de>');
my $from = encode('MIME-Header', $utf8_from);
say "Mail: $from";
my $validator = Email::Valid->new();
if(my $addr = $validator->address( $from )) {
    say "OK: ", Dumper($addr);
}
else {
    say "Not valid";
}

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Regards
McA

In reply to Re: unicode problem with Email::Valid by McA
in thread unicode problem with Email::Valid by natxo

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