Bugs item #887806, was opened at 2004-01-30 15:03 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by bwarsaw You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=887806&...

Category: configuring/installing Group: 2.1 (stable)

Status: Closed

Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Chan Min Wai (dcmwai) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: List preferred_language config.

Initial Comment: I'm using MM 2.1.1 with Redhat 9.0 (rpm packages). When I see MM can use big5 I'm teting it with fun and it give me an problem that I never think of.

In state changing the whole/system wide to big5, I've choose to change the preferred_language in one of my list (dailycquote) to be big5. This cause a big problem I can never get into the admin page anymore. not even bin/config_list -o .

This is the error message

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 192, in main show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 515, in show_results form.AddItem(show_variables(mlist, category, subcat, cgidata, doc)) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 564, in show_variables add_options_table_item(mlist, category, subcat, table, item) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 579, in add_options_table_item val = get_item_gui_value(mlist, category, kind, varname, params, extra) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 615, in get_item_gui_value value = gui.getValue(mlist, kind, varname, params) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Gui/General.py", line 446, in getValue return Utils.uncanonstr(mlist.subject_prefix, mlist.preferred_language) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 761, in uncanonstr return s.encode(charset) LookupError: unknown encoding: big5

(when accessing the admin page, after keyin password)

This is the error from CLI when using config_list. Traceback (most recent call last): File "../../bin/config_list", line 339, in ? main() File "../../bin/config_list", line 332, in main do_output(listname, outfile) File "../../bin/config_list", line 117, in do_output do_list_categories(mlist, k, None, outfp) File "../../bin/config_list", line 166, in do_list_categories value = gui.getValue(mlist, vtype, varname, data[2]) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Gui/General.py", line 446, in getValue return Utils.uncanonstr(mlist.subject_prefix, mlist.preferred_language) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 761, in uncanonstr return s.encode(charset) LookupError: unknown encoding: big5

As you can see it is all about the unknow big5.

something I wounder, why would config_list bouther if it is big5... Please help

I've think about a solution that is to edit the Db of the mailling list, however, I've never success.

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)

Date: 2004-01-30 22:01

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Part of your problem is that Python does not come with Asian encodings out of the box. You will have to add Chinese codecs to get anywhere at all. CJKCodecs are probably your best bet:

http://cjkpython.i18n.org

However, once you get that installed, you may still have problems. The Chinese translations are very much out of date and need a champion to help work at updating them. If you're interested in helping, please contact mailman-i18n@python.org.

In the meantime, I'm going to close this issue.

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