It appears that Dessalegn Yehuala via UA-EAI <mequanint.yehuala@gmail.com> said:
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My take on EAI adoption and Mailman’s potential role is that, while Mailman has made substantive progress in messages and interfaces internationalizations, achieving full EAI support remains a significant challenge, as evidenced in Mailman 3.10. Managing mailing lists with mixed EAI and non-EAI subscribers introduces complexities that extend beyond enabling UTF-8 addresses, requiring seamless email delivery across diverse environments- a gap not yet fully addressed by current standards. As John pointed out, suggestions like ASCII fallback addresses, while practical, ...
I wish people would stop saying this. ASCII fallback addresses are *not* practical. The experimental version of EAI had them and they were a failure. Mail programs didn't handle them well, and the two addresses kept leaking into the wrong contexts. And as many people have noted, if everyone has to have an ASCII address anyway why bother with EAI? Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly