[Mailman-i18n] Pipermail and non-English lists

Mon Nov 18 16:58:58 2002

>>>>> "MvL" == Martin v Löwis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> wr=
ites:

    >> MvL> This HTML page is formatted as KOI-8R, but that encoding
    >> is MvL> nowhere declared.  Really?  When I use Moz1.1's "get
    >> page info" it tells me that the encoding is KOI8-R.  Where
    >> would it get this information from?

    MvL> I have no idea.

    | Connected to mail.python.org.
    | Escape character is '^]'.
    | GET /pipermail/playground/ HTTP/1.0

    | HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    | Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:47:31 GMT
    | Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)
    | Last-Modified: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 22:54:55 GMT
    | ETag: "1a00a9-100d-3dd2d83f"
    | Accept-Ranges: bytes
    | Content-Length: 4109
    | Connection: close
    | Content-Type: text/html

    | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
    | <HTML>
    |   <HEAD>
    |      <title>The Playground Archives</title>
    |      <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow">
    |   </HEAD>

    MvL> As you can see, there is no indication of a charset. Perhaps
    MvL> Mozilla 1.1 does smart guessing? Mozilla 1.0 displays
    MvL> Mojibake.

Ah, I think it's a TOC problem, because individual articles have an
http-equiv header indicating the proper encoding:

-------------------- snip snip --------------------
% telnet mail.python.org 80
Trying 12.155.117.29...
Connected to mail.python.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /pipermail/playground/2002-November/000018.html HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:53:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:48:07 GMT
ETag: "188314-8b0-3dd919c7"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2224
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
   <TITLE> [Playground] Testing KOI8-R once more
   </TITLE>
   <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
   <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:loewis%40informatik.hu-berlin.de?Subject=%5BPlayground%5D%20Testing%20KOI8-R%20once%20more&In-Reply-To=">
   <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
   <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=koi8-r">
-------------------- snip snip --------------------

But it looks like the thread indices and the list archive overview
pages either don't have http-equiv's or they're incorrect.

I'll try to fix those.
-Barry