- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net:
Peter Holzer wrote:
Hi Aside of the actual translations being done... Can someone confirm that german umlauts and more or less exotic characters should work within the mail templates?
Templates for web pages or pieces of web pages should have all non-ascii characters encoded as HTML entities, e.g. 'ä', 'ö', etc.
Seriously? Is there a particular reason we can't go UTF-8 and use 'ä', 'ö' the way they are written natively? Don't take it personal, Mark, but eversince I've been on the Internet I had to use a charset from a foreign language to create a crippled representation of my native language. If there's a chance to improve that I'd like to take it.
Text templates for email messages, etc. can have non-ascii (exotic) characters as long as they are encoded in the character set that Mailman uses for that language. For Mailman 2.1 and German, this is iso-8859-1.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure how this is working in MM3 in terms of how the various languages are registered and what the character set for German is (although most should probably be utf-8).
For German most people nowadays use UTF-8.
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