On 3/6/2024 10:13 AM, Bill Cole via mailop wrote:
support for SMTPUTF8 *in MTAs operating as MXs* is not widespread enough to be useful except
Email has a long history of very poor compliance, coupled with recipient demands that sender-side problems be dealt with using receiver-side changes.
The upgrade to more than US-ASCII started in 1990, for email content and while MIME solved that within a couple of years, improvements for the header and addressing have continued to be a problem.
By way of example, the 'Universal Acceptance' effort has been underway for a very long time, and yet a thread like this one here continues to happen.
Universal Acceptance (UA) - ICANN <#> 🔗 https://www.icann.org/ua <https://www.icann.org/ua> d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social
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