Text encoding of digests
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
On 2/21/24 13:49, Christian Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
Hi all
I have a list with Mailman 2.1.39 running on cPanel (so, no direct access to the server settings). ... I did not find the possibility to change the header in the "digest options" of the mailing list.
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
Hello Mark Sapiro. On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:50:37 -0800, you 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.
I changed this now, and will see what happens.
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>.
As you said, this is not possible with the cPanel version of Mailman.
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.
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
On 2/21/24 15:00, Christian via Mailman-Users wrote:
Hello Mark Sapiro. On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:50:37 -0800, you wrote:
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>.
As you said, this is not possible with the cPanel version of Mailman.
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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