On Tuesday, Jan 27, 2004, at 13:36 US/Eastern, Craig Elkins wrote:
PLEASE HELP!!!!! need to customize subject line in new subscribers welcome message! in english (en?)
i can't find the mailman.po english (US) version - i would assume the directory would be called "en" and it would be in messages - but I don't see it. please tell me what i am missing here - my client is about to shoot me!!!!!!!! also, after i change the message what else to i need to do?
The .po files are translations; there don't exist English translations because the English is the original. You can find the welcome message subject in Deliverer.py to make a quick-and-dirty change.
I am not an i18n expert though, so I'm not exactly sure what happens to translations when you change one of the original strings. My intuition is that the new string would be "untranslatable" using existing translations, so you'd always get the English version. If your client wishes to have properly translated welcome message subjects in other languages, you would probably need to update messages/mailman.pot and each of the translations. Also check README-I18N.en and the mailman-i18n list.
--Robby