Yesterday it was announced on the Official Gmail Blog that the issue we were fighting for so long, namely E-MAILs in OUR OWN LANGUAGE, is (almost) solved.

What does it mean?
Until now we had to use only non-accented Latin characters for signing up. But what about the people that are using non-Latin alphabets – their email address options are limited. I myself am a Bulgarian, using Cyrillic. What about me? More that 360 million people around the world are using Cyrillic. And what about Japanese, Devanagari or Arabic?

“In 2012, an organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) created a new email standard that supports addresses with non-Latin and accented Latin characters. In order for this standard to become a reality, every email provider and every website that asks you for your email address must adopt it.” – is said in the Google’s blog.

The newest change is only the beginning but still is a BIG NEWS:

“Gmail users can send emails to, and receive emails from, people who have these characters in their email addresses”.

The first step has been done!
Hopefully soon the other big companies will follow the Google’s example and make the change “Internet in our own language” possible!