[Mailman-Users] language encoding for archives

[kristina clair]

>
> If the list language is Ukranian, the character set should be utf-8.
> One potential issue is that the web server can be overriding this with
> its own Content-Transfer-Encoding: header that specifies something
> other than utf-8.

Hi,

I am still having some trouble understanding encoding and archives.
You were correct that the webserver was overriding the utf-8 encoding
on the archive pages, so the contents pages look great now.

What I'm still having a problem with is the display of some messages
on the archive pages.  Some of the messages appear correctly in
cyrillic, but some of the messages do not.  The archive menus and
headers, etc, appear with the correct character set - it is just the
message itself which in some cases appears as gibberish.
Looking at the html source of the archive pages, it seems like the
message content is inserted into the archive page with <PRE> tags?
The list administrator claims that when the emails are sent to the
list, they all appear with the correct character set.  I am wondering,
though, if the problem could be the the email programs of some list
members are setting the character set differently such that it is not
getting through to mailman.

Sorry to ask such a vague question, but I'm just trying to get a
handle on how messages with different character sets get into the
archive pages.  What factors could cause them to be displayed with the
incorrect character set on the archive pages?

Thanks,
Kristina