Hello all :)
Since I am continually frustrated by the lack of my language in
Mailman, I'm willing to do the translation.
However, I couldn't fine any instructions on how to get started on a
new localization, on the Mailman site.
I strongly support the idea of maintaining the Mailman translations
through the Translation Project. I translate for quite a few
projects, and the TP are the most effective translation project I've
encountered.
Meanwhile ... where do I start? :)
Thankyou in advance for your help with this. :)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
Hello again :)
As you may realize from all my questions, I'm configuring my first
Mailman list. A friend and I are revitaiizing a moribund localization
team, and had to request a new mailing list. I didn't know that would
mean me getting stuck with running it. :S
I hope to learn from it, anyway. :)
Apart from not having a Vietnamese language option (my previous post
deals with that), I have noticed that when I enter text in Vietnamese
(UTF-8) in the Configuration page (e.g. Introductory Description),
the result on the list page is that all the non-Latin-1 characters
are shown as question marks. Not good. :(
I'm guessing this is because I can't choose Vietnamese as the
language option (because it's not there), so have stuck with the
default (English), and that affects the encoding choice.
Is that the case?
I really don't want to choose another UTF-8 language, because that
will be confusing for list-members. Would you consider setting UTF-8
as the default encoding for English?
Or am I completely off the target and something else has gone wrong? :D
I do need to be able to display Vietnamese (UTF-8) text on the list
page for my users. What do I need to do to ensure it is displayed
correctly?
Note: Vietnamese is written in a Roman alphabet, but with combined
diacritics to show the six different tones that distinguish meaning.
Without the accents, you can't tell which word is which. Vietnamese
is notorious for breaking "full Unicode support", so it's a good test
case. ;)
Thankyou in advance for your help. :)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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We've patched our local installation of 2.1.7 with some corrections for some
typos and odd phrasings in the Spanish messages and templates, provided by one
of our users. Some of the typos are rather unsightly such as "ó" in the
HTML template, with missing closing semicolon. :)
I've submitted a patch on the patch tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1433262&group_id=1…
Thanks!
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I translated a few of the Mailman subscripe and unsubscribe
text files to Hebrew. I tried to add Hebrew (iso-8859-8-1) support by adding
the following line to Defaults.py
add_language('he', _('Hebrew'), 'iso-8859-8-1')
and I even tried setting the default language to Hebrew in mm_cfg.py
DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'he'
but the messages sent by Mailman still do not set the charset correctly. I
looked at http://www.list.org/i18n.html for more specific instructions
but could not find any. Can someone point me in the right direction to
configure Mailman to set the charset for outgoing Mailman messages to
iso-8859-8-1.
Thank you,
--
- Josh
I translated a few of the Mailman subscripe and unsubscribe
text files to Hebrew. I tried to add Hebrew (iso-8859-8-1) support by
adding the following line to Defaults.py
add_language('he', _('Hebrew'), 'iso-8859-8-1')
and I even tried setting the default language to Hebrew in mm_cfg.py
DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'he'
but the messages sent by Mailman still do not set the charset correctly. I
looked at http://www.list.org/i18n.html for more specific instructions
but could not find any. Can someone point me in the right direction to
configure Mailman to set the charset for outgoing Mailman messages to iso-8859-8-1.
Thank you,
--
- Josh
