Special Characters within Email Addresses

I am trying to send e-mails via JavaMail that contain French characters. I have no problem setting the subject and body as ISO-8859-1 compliant.
However, there are several e-mails in the distribution list that contain special characters within the actual email (i.e. test@t�st.com). When I try to send it, I get the following error:
javax.mail.SendFailedException: Sending failed;
nested exception is:
        javax.mail.SendFailedException: Message partially delivered;
nested exception is:
        javax.mail.SendFailedException: 501 badly formatted RCPT TO user <test@9
nested exception is:
        javax.mail.SendFailedException: 501 badly formatted RCPT TO user <test@9
        at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:219)Are there ways around this or could this be a limitation of my smtp server? If you anyone can share some info or point me towards the appropriate resources, it will be very much appreciated.
Thanks.

I'm pretty sure you can't put special characters in a domain name (i.e t�st.com). However, that begs the question of whether it is valid in the user name portion of the email address (i.e. t�[email protected]). I don't know for sure.
Maybe URL encoding or Mime encoding may do something, but this is just a guess.

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Apple, **PLEASE** address this issue. I'm not the only one with the problem and it's become a huge pain in my side to have to work around this.

I don't see how it's sloppy or why there should be any reason that it shouldn't have given you both.
Even putting aside that gracenote and others don't have consistent spelling in their databases, that when you download from the iTunes store, who knows what you're going to get, so that one's library could be all over the place and one might not even notice it, accents and other markings don't change the fact that a u is the same letter as ú.
Yes, it's pronounced different. Yes, the difference is very important. But it's the same base letter. And even if it's considered a different letter in another language, in English we have 26 letters and all the accents and tildes and umlauts don't make them a new letter, which is what we're talking about here.
It's a huge pain that looking for an album that has "Zürich" in the field and I type in "Zurich" I can't find it. I have to think about if I really do have that album, maybe I deleted it by accident, etc. And then I think to type "rich" and then it pops up.
That's way too many steps. I don't know keyboard shortcuts and I don't want to learn them. In English, it should be letters, not characters, that count.

Thunderbird adds " and characters to my email addresses from my address book, and then can't send them because they are unrecogniseable, how do I stop it?

If I click a contact in the contact payne of a write window, it comes up in the To: place as <" joeblogs"@talktalk.com> for example. Even though in the address book it is [email protected] When I try to send the email, it comes back as an unrecogniseable address and is not sent. If I remove the <""> characters by hand ,it works. What am I doing wrong? Please help!

Thank you Matt, I think the problem is solved. I must have been in the habit of putting a space before the email address, one I removed them the "" were removed, The <> still surrounds the email address on the outgoing mail but that is to differentiate the address from the friends name. Thanks.

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