I'm not surprised. Internationalized symbols can be used to make an illegitimate email address look like it's from an official one.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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Isn’t there some Russian character or something that looks exactly like and a or o but is completely different to machines
I’m sure there’s more but that’s one example I vaguely remember that’s probably incorrect
ΑΒΕΖΗΙΚΜΝΟΡΤΥΧ
Part of the capital Greek alphabet.
It's a good question and something they ought to support.
Their official account in the Fediverse is @[email protected]. You might want to try DMing them.
Did you bother to contact their customer support asking if they plan to add this feature?
In my biased opinion, I would imagine Gmail would want to use you and your emails for every ounce of data they can squeeze out of it. However proton is a paid service who doesn’t sell your data, with much less Human Resources than google, therefore less language support. They add things as fast as they can get around to them. If you inquire they might be more apt to add the support if they have someone on staff that can do it.
I would say that you are seeing things from an English speaking community perspective. IDNs and Internationalized Emails exist for a reason. It's bad to see everything new as a potential security risk.
It's not really new. It's just uncommon and it can be abused to make different spellings that look like English spellings but aren't.
It's kind of like goog l e.com vs goog I e .com but on a much larger scale.
The EU should mandate support for its native alphabets (probably via Unicode) for IT service providers that provide services in the EU.