At around Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:53:34 +0900, Glen Malley <glen@interq.or.jp> may have mentioned:

I'm curious as to whether or not anyone has gotten Mailman to work well with messages containing non-Latin characters. In my particular case, Japanese.

out of curiosity, did you change any of the messages which originate from the list to contain japanese? if so, did you add:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

(or something similar) to the headers? not that this is relevant to the archiver mangling the messages...

I did a few tests on my test-box and found that while Japanese messages do get sent perfectly to the mailing list recipients, archiving somehow mangles the encoding and produces gibberish.

Obviously this is not a good thing... Does anyone have any experience/comments about this?

i've decided to go the route of using mhonarc as an archiver as it also handles mime messages quite well.

this involves a couple of things -- the first is to get mailman working w/ mhonarc and the second is to get mhonarc working w/ japanese.

for the second part, if you can read japanese, there are instructions at:

http://www.shiratori.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/~p-katoh/Hack/Docs/mhonarc-jp/

for the first part, there was a related message a while back on this list. i'll quote it below as it isn't too long. not sure how up-to-date the instructions are.

hope this helps.

<----------------------------------------------------------------------> Subject: [Mailman-Users] /mailman/listinfo/ From: Christopher Lindsey lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:34:25 -0500 (CDT)

Anyone successfully have mailman and mhonarc setup? Any info about doing it would be appreciated.

Yup, but it's a hack. The longterm goal is to patch mailman to allow *any* outside archival program to be executed instead of pipermail, but for now I just subscribe an archiving account to the mailing list.

The archiving account can be alias that pumps things directly into mhonarc, or you can use procmail (as I do) to send the incoming messages to mhonarc with appropriate commandline arguments.

The final thing that I do is comment out mention of the archives from $prefix/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py (lines 40 and 41 in 1.0rc1) and the sections in $prefix/Mailman/MailList.py. I also change PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL and PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL to point to the URL that the MHonArc-based archives are in.

Chris <---------------------------------------------------------------------->