[Mailman-Developers] 2.1.2 -- still "Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding"

[Martin Maechler]

Dear Barry and co-developers,

thanks a lot for 2.1.2 and all the bugs you've fixed!
With 2.1.1 (installed early March here), I had started to allow
for some mailing lists all available different languages,
including Japanese, e.g.
and I see that some users gladly chose them.  Maybe that's the
reason for things like the following
{cut&paste}ed from the data/logs/error  file 

Regards,
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum  LEO C16	Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology)	8092 Zurich	SWITZERLAND
phone: x-41-1-632-3408		fax: ...-1228			<><

-------- cut from data/logs/error -----------------------------

May 05 09:52:37 2003 (23520) SHUNTING: 1052121156.282855+3ec8467f1fdc497d2189844244854948fc4c7c6b
May 05 09:52:40 2003 (23520) Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding
May 05 09:52:40 2003 (23520) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 218, in _dispose
    res = Results(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 75, in __init__
    subj = make_header(decode_header(subj)).__unicode__()
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 144, in make_header
    h.append(s, charset)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 272, in append
    ustr = unicode(s, incodec, errors)
LookupError: unknown encoding

May 05 09:52:40 2003 (23520) SHUNTING: 1052121160.428594+dd539dae2deaafc3ecd67c30e303dfaac826f882
May 05 09:52:47 2003 (23520) Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding
May 05 09:52:47 2003 (23520) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 218, in _dispose
    res = Results(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 75, in __init__
    subj = make_header(decode_header(subj)).__unicode__()
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 144, in make_header
    h.append(s, charset)
  File "/usr/local/app/mailman-sfs/2.1.2/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 272, in append
    ustr = unicode(s, incodec, errors)
LookupError: unknown encoding

May 05 09:52:47 2003 (23520) SHUNTING: 1052121167.541289+1866a13cdc22d889275125bb124ecb58ae5fceb9