function emailCheck (emailStr,lg) {
	/* The following variable tells the rest of the function whether or not
	to verify that the address ends in a two-letter country or well-known
	TLD.  1 means check it, 0 means don't. */
	var checkTLD=1;
	
	/* The following is the list of known TLDs that an e-mail address must end with. */
	var knownDomsPat=/^(com|net|org|edu|int|mil|gov|arpa|biz|aero|name|coop|info|pro|museum)$/;
	
	/* The following pattern is used to check if the entered e-mail address
	fits the user@domain format.  It also is used to separate the username
	from the domain. */
	var emailPat=/^(.+)@(.+)$/;
	
	/* The following string represents the pattern for matching all special
	characters.  We don't want to allow special characters in the address. 
	These characters include ( ) < > @ , ; : \ " . [ ] */
	var specialChars="\\(\\)><@,;:\\\\\\\"\\.\\[\\]";
	
	/* The following string represents the range of characters allowed in a 
	username or domainname.  It really states which chars aren't allowed.*/
	var validChars="\[^\\s" + specialChars + "\]";
	
	/* The following pattern applies if the "user" is a quoted string (in
	which case, there are no rules about which characters are allowed
	and which aren't; anything goes).  E.g. "jiminy cricket"@disney.com
	is a legal e-mail address. */
	var quotedUser="(\"[^\"]*\")";
	
	/* The following pattern applies for domains that are IP addresses,
	rather than symbolic names.  E.g. joe@[123.124.233.4] is a legal
	e-mail address. NOTE: The square brackets are required. */
	var ipDomainPat=/^\[(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\]$/;
	
	/* The following string represents an atom (basically a series of non-special characters.) */
	var atom=validChars + '+';
	
	/* The following string represents one word in the typical username.
	For example, in john.doe@somewhere.com, john and doe are words.
	Basically, a word is either an atom or quoted string. */
	var word="(" + atom + "|" + quotedUser + ")";
	
	// The following pattern describes the structure of the user
	var userPat=new RegExp("^" + word + "(\\." + word + ")*$");
	
	/* The following pattern describes the structure of a normal symbolic
	domain, as opposed to ipDomainPat, shown above. */
	var domainPat=new RegExp("^" + atom + "(\\." + atom +")*$");
	
	/* Finally, let's start trying to figure out if the supplied address is valid. */
	/* Begin with the coarse pattern to simply break up user@domain into
	different pieces that are easy to analyze. */
	var matchArray=emailStr.match(emailPat);
	
	if (matchArray==null) {
		/* Too many/few @'s or something; basically, this address doesn't
		even fit the general mould of a valid e-mail address. */
		if(lg=="FR"){
			alert("Votre adresse semble incorrecte, vérifiez si vous avez saisi les caractères @ ou '.'");
		} else {
			alert("Your email seems to be incorrect, check about @ ou '.'");
		}
		return false;
	}
	var user=matchArray[1];
	var domain=matchArray[2];
	
	// Start by checking that only basic ASCII characters are in the strings (0-127).	
	for (i=0; i<user.length; i++) {
		if (user.charCodeAt(i)>127) {
			if(lg=="FR"){
				alert("Le nom utilisé dans votre adresse email semble contenir des caractères invalides.");
			} else {
				alert("You have invalid caracter in the name of your email.");
			}
			return false;
	   }
	}
	for (i=0; i<domain.length; i++) {
		if (domain.charCodeAt(i)>127) {
			if(lg=="FR"){
				alert("Le nom de domaine de votre adresse email contient des caractères non valides.");
			} else {
				alert("You have invalid caracter in the domain of your email.");
			}
			return false;
	   }
	}
	
	// See if "user" is valid 
	if (user.match(userPat)==null) {
		// user is not valid
		if(lg=="FR"){
			alert("Le nom utilisé dans votre adresse email ne semble pas valide!");
		} else {
			alert("The name in your email seems to be incorrect");
		}
		return false;
	}
	
	/* if the e-mail address is at an IP address (as opposed to a symbolic
	host name) make sure the IP address is valid. */
	var IPArray=domain.match(ipDomainPat);
	if (IPArray!=null) {
		// this is an IP address
		for (var i=1;i<=4;i++) {
			if (IPArray[i]>255) {
				if(lg=="FR"){
					alert("L'adresse IP contenu dans votre email semble incorrecte");
				} else {
					alert("The IP adress you use in your email is incorrect");
				}
				return false;
		   }
		}
		return true;
	}
	
	// Domain is symbolic name.  Check if it's valid.
	 
	var atomPat=new RegExp("^" + atom + "$");
	var domArr=domain.split(".");
	var len=domArr.length;
	for (i=0;i<len;i++) {
		if (domArr[i].search(atomPat)==-1) {
			if(lg=="FR"){
				alert("Le nom de domaine de votre email ne semble pas valide");
			} else {
				alert("The domain name of your email is incorrect");
			}
			return false;
	   }
	}
	
	/* domain name seems valid, but now make sure that it ends in a
	known top-level domain (like com, edu, gov) or a two-letter word,
	representing country (uk, nl), and that there's a hostname preceding 
	the domain or country. */
	if (checkTLD && domArr[domArr.length-1].length!=2 && 
	domArr[domArr.length-1].search(knownDomsPat)==-1) {
	if(lg=="FR"){
		alert("La fin de votre email doit être un domaine connu, ou bien sur deux caractères.");
	} else {
		alert("The end of your email must be in two caracters or an known domain");
	}
	return false;
	}
	
	// Make sure there's a host name preceding the domain.	
	if (len<2) {
		if(lg=="FR"){
			alert("Il n'y a pas de nom d'hote dans votre adresse email!");
		} else {
			alert("Yous email seems to be incorrect");
		}
		return false;
	}
	
	// If we've gotten this far, everything's valid!
	return true;
}