Text encoding of digests
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Hi all
I have a list with Mailman 2.1.39 running on cPanel (so, no direct access to the server settings).
When the daily digest is sent, it comes with these headers:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
even if messages are sent with charactest "outside" the 7bit us-ascii table. Therefore, all these characters are replaced by a question mark (?), making the text difficult to read.
Contrary to the digests, individual messages come perfectly with encoding "utf-8":
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
I did not find the possibility to change the header in the "digest options" of the mailing list.
Thank you for your ideas Christian
-- Christian Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Hilfe für Strassenkinder in Ghana: https://www.chance-for-children.org
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On 2/21/24 13:49, Christian Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
If in the web admin UI you go to Language options and set preferred_language to German (you may also need to select German under available_languages), I think that will work, assuming the current preferred_language is English.
A better solution is to set the character set for English to UTF-8, but that requires access to mm_cfg.py on the server, see <https://wiki.list.org/x/15958250>.
Of course setting the list's preferred_language to German will have other effects which may be unwanted such as changing the default language of the web UI and translating the digest boilerplate.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Hello Mark Sapiro. On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:50:37 -0800, you wrote:
I changed this now, and will see what happens.
As you said, this is not possible with the cPanel version of Mailman.
This is not a problem for me, I am native German speaking, bur worked half of my life in companies where the office language was English :-)
Thank you Christian
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Christian Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: https://www.chance-for-children.org
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On 2/21/24 15:00, Christian via Mailman-Users wrote:
To be clear, it is perfectly possible to do this in cPanel's Mailman and you might be able to convince the hosting service to do it. The difficulty is that most customers of a hosting service with a shared cPanel server do not have sufficient access to do it themselves.
I.e., the issue isn't cPanel Mailman per se, but rather insufficient access. See https://wiki.list.org/x/4030641 for more about cPanel Mailman.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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On 2/21/24 13:49, Christian Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
If in the web admin UI you go to Language options and set preferred_language to German (you may also need to select German under available_languages), I think that will work, assuming the current preferred_language is English.
A better solution is to set the character set for English to UTF-8, but that requires access to mm_cfg.py on the server, see <https://wiki.list.org/x/15958250>.
Of course setting the list's preferred_language to German will have other effects which may be unwanted such as changing the default language of the web UI and translating the digest boilerplate.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Hello Mark Sapiro. On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:50:37 -0800, you wrote:
I changed this now, and will see what happens.
As you said, this is not possible with the cPanel version of Mailman.
This is not a problem for me, I am native German speaking, bur worked half of my life in companies where the office language was English :-)
Thank you Christian
--
Christian Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: https://www.chance-for-children.org
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On 2/21/24 15:00, Christian via Mailman-Users wrote:
To be clear, it is perfectly possible to do this in cPanel's Mailman and you might be able to convince the hosting service to do it. The difficulty is that most customers of a hosting service with a shared cPanel server do not have sufficient access to do it themselves.
I.e., the issue isn't cPanel Mailman per se, but rather insufficient access. See https://wiki.list.org/x/4030641 for more about cPanel Mailman.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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