[Mailman-Users] Character encoding for mass subscribtion?

[e.c.]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Urwald Urwald <urwald at rocketmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Hello.
>
> I want to mass-subscribe some mail addresses in mailman. I have a list of
> (spanish) names and the mail addresses. The names usually contain non-ascii
> characters like a with akute (á), e with acute (é), n with tilde (ñ) and so
> on. Mailman doesn't import these names correctly. Why not???
>
> I've tried it with entering the list in the web browser. Not working
> correctly. I've tried to upload a UTF8-encoded text file. Not working
> correctly. I've tried some other encodings. Not working.
>
> However, I've tested it with a file containing only 1 mail address and
> "áéíóóúñÑ" as name. Finally the upload was working when I used 8859-15.
> Than I have converted my big address list to 8859-15, and now it didn't
> work anymore. Yes, I can reproduce that. Does mailman try to auto-recognize
> the character encoding?
>
> Have a look at this link:
>
> http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/08/17/convert-mailman-translation-to-utf-8/
>
> I don't understand the def _(s) function but since ascii is a subset of
> utf-8, it's safe to use iconv going from ascii (or iso-8859-1) to utf-8.
> Maybe all you needed was to add (or change) the line
>
> DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'utf-8'
>
> in mm_config.py.
>
> The example shows sv (Sverige) and _("Swedish"). This might need es and _("Spanish") although I don't
> see why it's needed since utf-8 should allow for an unequivocal representation of many alphabets in the
> same document.
>
>
> How can I get this working??? I need some help.
>
>




> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
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