Re: [Mailman-Users] The last release from the GNU Mailman project (was: Handling Munged From Addresses)

On 2020-02-28 05:44, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Mailman has the opposite problem. We *wish* str was Unicode from the get-go, but it wasn't, and Mailman 2 is rife with potential encoded/ decoded confusion because of the nature of email and the dual usage of str in Python 1, and the history of Mailman as an MLM for an American rock band (who needs no steekin' accents, we just hammer and bend the strings!)

This is clearly a story I didn't know. :) And now I'm curious...