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Trac ticket: Core-31992
See #5237

Replaces the legacy is_email() and sanitize_email() functions, augmenting them through instead by selecting email address support.

The new wp_email_address_support filter provides an opportunity for plugins to upgrade or downgrade email support depending on an individual site’s needs, while paving a path towards future support for Unicode email addresses by default. This patch downgrades default support to the updated ascii mode, which rejects Unicode addresses but applies updated parsing rules for better ecosystem integration.

Follow-up to: [32482].

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Trac ticket: Core-31992
See WordPress#5237

Replaces the legacy `is_email()` and `sanitize_email()` functions,
augmenting them through instead by selecting email address support.

The new `wp_email_address_support` filter provides an opportunity
for plugins to upgrade or downgrade email support depending on an
individual site’s needs, while paving a path towards future support
for Unicode email addresses by default. This patch downgrades default
support to the updated `ascii` mode, which rejects Unicode addresses
but applies updated parsing rules for better ecosystem integration.

Follow-up to: [[32482]](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/62482).
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