On 28/02/2006, at 7:21 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
You may want to change charset for 'en' from 'us-ascii' to 'utf-8' like this one: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-February/ 049300.html
This link says:
It sounds like your list language is English, the character set for which in Mailman is us-ascii, so the digest is sent in us-ascii which doesn't support those characters, thus the '?'.
Try setting the list language to French. Or, if you really need it to be English, you can put the following in mm_cfg.py
def _(s): return s
add_language('en', _('English (USA)'), 'iso-8859-1')
del _
I don't have a copy of mailman on my laptop. Even if I did, altering such a file would not affect the online mailing list. I'm using the online interface to configure a mailing list (kde-l10n- vi). Until I can create a Vietnamese localization for Mailman (which will be UTF-8): 1. Is it reasonable to suggest that the default for English in Mailman be UTF-8? I suggest this because English is the default value, so anyone using a language for which there is not yet a localization will be using the English interface. Having it at UTF-8 would fit with the move to Unicode, and would make the English interface a viable default for languages not yet represented by a localization. 2. In a current distribution, if I ask the KDE sysadmins to alter the encoding for English to UTF-8, are there any considerations they need to take into account? Will that create difficulties for anyone receiving the mails in English? (The UTF-8 charset includes ASCII, so I'm hoping not.) from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN