On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Tomas Fasth wrote:

Hi, I'm new to this list.

Welcome.

IMHO, Mailman is a jolly good piece of software.

Yay - thanks!

Have anyone tried to localize Mailman (translate to another language)? A quick look gave me a hint that it isn't that straight forward. It seem to exist quite a number of texts intended for user presentation inside scripts. Oh, maybe some are for the administrator presentation. Anyway, I wish to translate the whole thing. Like to share experiences on this topic, anyone? I intend to join the developer's list as well to discuss what can be done to make it easier in coming releases.

If you take a look at the latest mailman version (see http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-checkins for instructions on following the current CVS revision), you'll see that we've (primarily barry has) begun to separate out all the multi-line text messages into separate files, and also are using a functional interface to the messages. Seems like this would be an opportune place to incorporate locale sensitivity, among other things. It would have to be generalized a good bit to apply to *all* messages, but we suspect that it's a start...

(This does seem like an ideal topic for mailman-developers, which is concerned with coding and other, um, system development issues - mailman-users is more for end-user and mailman-administrator sorts of questions.)

Ken Manheimer klm@python.org 703 620-8990 x268 (orporation for National Research |nitiatives

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