[EuroPython] Incorrect charset for the Europython mailing list

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:02:25 +0300, Marius Gedminas writes:
>On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:32:34PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> On 17.04.2014 11:51, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> > I didn't realise that making changes to the charset encoding wasn't something
>> > that you did from inside mailman.  Sorry about that.  I will see about 
>> > getting the encoding fixed on python.org then, if that is where the fix
>> > needs to be applied.
>> 
>> The footers have to use the encoding of the ML preferred language charset.
>> Since the europython ML is set to US English as preferred language,
>> the charset is ASCII.
>
>Where's that language -> charset mapping defined?
>
>> That's how Mailman works; it's not something that could be changed on
>> the server side - except for patching Mailman itself, of course.
>
>Are those mappings hardcoded in Mailman?
>
>Marius Gedminas

hardcoded in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py , as far as I can tell, one charset for
each language choice.  

I've asked about this on the mailman_users mailing list (before mal
replied).  It seems an odd design choice, to me, so I wondered if I
had missed a way to override this choice, or if there was some compelling
reason why it _absolutely has to be done in a config file_ that I 
don't understand.  I will write back if I attain illumination.

Laura