Sending SES emails using UTF-8 characters in the address

Question

I was curious if there was any update to this Stackoverflow question but noticed that the original post has been archived and I could not find any details on what is supported by SES in the current documentation.

Basically, is it possible today to send an email to myemail+✖@gmail.com (where ✖ is a UTF-8 character) or is SES still limited by RFC-822 that only supports ASCII characters?

Basically, is it possible today to send an email to myemail+✖@gmail.com (where ✖ is a UTF-8 character) or is SES still limited by [RFC-822](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt) that only supports ASCII characters?

Accepted Answer

From the following document, it seems that you can send an email to a UTF-8 email address by using Punycode encoding.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/send-email-raw.html

*Basically, the email address string must be 7-bit ASCII.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/send-email-formatted.html

Sending SES emails using UTF-8 characters in the address

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