Input type email value in Chrome with accented characters wrong

Question

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 th

Answer 1

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.