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When entering accented characters into an input type email in Chrome, it changes the value to something strange.

When entering the email: test@Bücher.ch the input value becomes: [email protected]. 

$('#email').val() // --> [email protected]
document.getElementById('email').value // --> [email protected]

This does not happen with an input type text, or in other major browsers.

See this fiddle for example. What is going on here and how do I get around it?

TheGwa
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    Same problem - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24818970/accented-chars-are-not-retrieved-correctly If you need email type, maybe second answer could help... – sinisake Aug 20 '15 at 11:58
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    Looks like Chrome doesn't support IDN for TLDs and is converting them to [Punycode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode) – CodingIntrigue Aug 20 '15 at 12:00
  • Both addresses are identical, you should be able to use either. – Álvaro González Aug 20 '15 at 12:09
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    The punnycode version does not read so nicely and confuses users. – TheGwa Aug 30 '15 at 18:42
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    I add an email like this gmaiĺ.com the problem is the html validation and most server validations will pass. If have to check the DNS MX records. – Tokeeen.com Jan 10 '18 at 10:12
  • I found a solution that uses type="text" to get around form validation errors while still keeping the @ symbol on mobile keyboards (tested in Chrome for Android) and packaged it as a drop-in .js file. My email is in my profile. – PHP Guru Sep 13 '20 at 21:33

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I think it's not an error, it's because of the specification. Chrome just follows the specification in a different way than other browsers:) and translate the IDN into its ascii representation.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=410937

To decode it back you can use some 3rd party solution such as

Converting punycode with dash character to Unicode

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Lukas Kral
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For others who face this problem again, I suggest use punycode npm package. https://www.npmjs.com/package/punycode

I think only Chrome encodes email into punycode. There is no way to prevent Chrome from punycoding. You just let her do her work and decode punycode in backend.

const punycode = require('punycode')
let data = request.only(['email'])
data['email'] = punycode.toUnicode(data['email'])

Worked like charm in adonis and my headache disappeared.

glinda93
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Fiddle

<form>
    <input id="email2" type="text"placeholder="[email protected]" autofocus required pattern="[^ @]*@[^ @]*">
    <input type ="submit">
</form>

For this problem it is because of input's email type, after '@' sign browser gives this error. I think they believe email adresses always must be in English.

Anyway Use text type then provide email regex

Mehmet Eren Yener
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