[Mailman-i18n] German Umlauts in pipermail
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@zope.com
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:44:11 -0400
>>>>> "JG" == Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:
JG> I tried to make pipermail (read: HyperArch.pl) aware of german
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<shudder> :)
JG> Umlauts. They're normally MIME-Encoded, using iso-8859-1. I
JG> searched through the existing code for "<" and ">"
JG> substitution as they're correctly substituted by < and
JG> >. Then I worked out the patch below.
JG> Unfortunately, "<" and ">" are working as before, but the
JG> other substitutions are never executed:-( Could anybody please
JG> give me some hints?
The most bogus part of the Pipermail integration is that lots of stuff
is duplicated not by inheritance, but by cut-and-paste. That means
even though you think you're changing something, it's really just
overridden in one of the derived classes.
This all needs to be cleaned up. :(
-Barry