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The characters we accept in email addresses are as follows:

Description Glyph
upper/lower case alpha  a-z A-Z
numbers  0-9
accepted special characters ~!$%^&*_=+}{'?-.

 


Below is a list of all special characters we do not support in an email address:

Description Glyph
no-break space = non-breaking space
inverted exclamation mark ¡
cent sign ¢
pound sign £
currency sign ¤
yen sign = yuan sign ¥
broken bar = broken vertical bar ¦
section sign §
diaeresis = spacing diaeresis ¨
copyright sign ©
feminine ordinal indicator ª
left-pointing double angle quotation mark «
not sign = discretionary hyphen ¬
soft hyphen = discretionary hyphen  
registered sign = registered trade mark sign ®
macron = spacing macron = overline ¯
degree sign °
plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign ±
superscript two = superscript digit two ²
superscript three = superscript digit three ³
acute accent = spacing acute ´
micro sign µ
pilcrow sign = paragraph sign
middle dot = Georgian comma ·
cedilla = spacing cedilla ¸
superscript one = superscript digit one ¹
masculine ordinal indicator º
right-pointing double angle quotation mark »
vulgar fraction one quarter ¼
vulgar fraction one half ½
vulgar fraction three quarters ¾
inverted question mark ¿
latin capital letter A with grave À
latin capital letter A with acute Á
latin capital letter A with circumflex Â
latin capital letter A with tilde Ã
latin capital letter A with diaeresis Ä
latin capital letter A with ring above Å
latin capital letter AE Æ
latin capital letter C with cedilla Ç
latin capital letter E with grave È
latin capital letter E with acute É
latin capital letter E with circumflex  
latin capital letter E with diaeresis Ë
latin capital letter I with grave Ì
latin capital letter I with acute Í
latin capital letter I with circumflex Î
latin capital letter I with diaeresis Ï
latin capital letter ETH Ð
latin capital letter N with tilde Ñ
latin capital letter O with grave Ò
latin capital letter O with acute Ó
latin capital letter O with circumflex Ô
latin capital letter O with tilde Õ
latin capital letter O with diaeresis Ö
multiplication sign ×
latin capital letter O with stroke Ø
latin capital letter U with grave Ù
latin capital letter U with acute Ú
latin capital letter U with circumflex Û
latin capital letter U with diaeresis Ü
latin capital letter Y with acute Ý
latin capital letter THORN Þ
latin small letter sharp s = ess-zed ß
latin small letter a with grave à
latin small letter a with acute á
latin small letter a with circumflex â
latin small letter a with tilde ã
latin small letter a with diaeresis ä
latin small letter a with ring above å
latin small letter ae æ
latin small letter c with cedilla ç
latin small letter e with grave è
latin small letter e with acute é
latin small letter e with circumflex ê
latin small letter e with diaeresis ë
latin small letter i with grave ì
latin small letter i with acute í
latin small letter i with circumflex î
latin small letter i with diaeresis ï
latin small letter eth ð
latin small letter n with tilde ñ
latin small letter o with grave ò
latin small letter o with acute ó
latin small letter o with circumflex ô
latin small letter o with tilde õ
latin small letter o with diaeresis ö
division sign ÷
latin small letter o with stroke ø
latin small letter u with grave ù
latin small letter u with acute ú
latin small letter u with circumflex û
latin small letter u with diaeresis ü
latin small letter y with acute ý
latin small letter thorn with þ
latin small letter y with diaeresis ÿ
latin small f with hook = function ƒ
greek capital letter alpha Α
greek capital letter beta Β
greek capital letter gamma Γ
greek capital letter delta Δ
greek capital letter epsilon Ε
greek capital letter zeta Ζ
greek capital letter eta Η
greek capital letter theta Θ
greek capital letter iota Ι
greek capital letter kappa Κ
greek capital letter lambda Λ
greek capital letter mu Μ
greek capital letter nu Ν
greek capital letter xi Ξ
greek capital letter omicron Ο
greek capital letter pi Π
greek capital letter rho Ρ
greek capital letter sigma Σ
greek capital letter tau Τ
greek capital letter upsilon Υ
greek capital letter phi Φ
greek capital letter chi Χ
greek capital letter psi Ψ
greek capital letter omega Ω
greek small letter alpha α
greek small letter beta β
greek small letter gamma γ
greek small letter delta δ
greek small letter epsilon ε
greek small letter zeta ζ
greek small letter eta η
greek small letter theta θ
greek small letter iota ι
greek small letter kappa κ
greek small letter lambda λ
greek small letter mu μ
greek small letter nu ν
greek small letter xi ξ
greek small letter omicron ο
greek small letter pi π
greek small letter rho ρ
greek small letter final sigma ς
greek small letter sigma σ
greek small letter tau τ
greek small letter upsilon υ
greek small letter phi φ
greek small letter chi χ
greek small letter psi ψ
greek small letter omega ω
greek small letter theta symbol ϑ
greek upsilon with hook symbol ϒ
greek pi symbol ϖ
bullet = black small circle
horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader
prime = minutes = feet
double prime = seconds = inches
overline = spacing overscore
fraction slash
script capital P = power set
blackletter capital I = imaginary part
blackletter capital R = real part symbol
trade mark sign
alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal
leftwards arrow
upwards arrow
rightwards arrow
downwards arrow
left right arrow
downwards arrow with corner leftwards
leftwards double arrow
upwards double arrow
rightwards double arrow
downwards double arrow
left right double arrow
for all
partial differential
there exists
empty set = null set = diameter
nabla = backward difference
element of
not an element of
contains as member
n-ary product = product sign
n-ary sumation
minus sign
asterisk operator
square root = radical sign
proportional to
infinity
angle
logical and = wedge
logical or = vee
intersection = cap
union = cup
integral
therefore
tilde operator = varies with = similar to
approximately equal to
almost equal to = asymptotic to
not equal to
identical to
less-than or equal to
greater-than or equal to
subset of
superset of
not a subset of
subset of or equal to
superset of or equal to
circled plus = direct sum
circled times = vector product
up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular
dot operator
left ceiling = apl upstile
right ceiling
left floor = apl downstile
right floor
left-pointing angle bracket = bra
right-pointing angle bracket = ket
lozenge
black spade suit
black club suit = shamrock
black heart suit = valentine
black diamond suit
quotation mark = APL quote "
ampersand &
less-than sign <
greater-than sign >
latin capital ligature OE Œ
latin small ligature oe œ
latin capital letter S with caron Š
latin small letter s with caron š
latin capital letter Y with diaeresis Ÿ
modifier letter circumflex accent ˆ
small tilde ˜
en space
em space
thin space
zero width non-joiner
zero width joiner
left-to-right mark
right-to-left mark
en dash
em dash
left single quotation mark
right single quotation mark
single low-9 quotation mark
left double quotation mark
right double quotation mark
double low-9 quotation mark
dagger
double dagger
per mille sign
single left-pointing angle quotation mark
single right-pointing angle quotation mark
euro sign