# how can I allow cyrillic letters in EmailField ?

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**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-can-i-allow-cyrillic-letters-in-emailfield/22395 "2023-07-19T08:37:20Z")\
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how can I allow cyrillic letters in EmailField ?

For example: allow email привет@три.ру

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Django’s EmailField uses EmailValidator and it’s regex allows only number, alphabets and some special symbols. If you want cyrillic letters in EmailField, you can use CharField and then create custom validation and can use it within your CharField.