[Mailman-Users] Corrupt Chinese Emails from Subscribe

[Greg Sims]

Thank you for looking into this Stephen.  Here is the text we actually want
to send if we can get it to work.

中文每日灵修电子邮件：开始订阅的第二步骤

我们收到一个以您的电子邮件地址"%(email)s"要求订阅中文每日灵修。

为了完成订阅程序，请单击“答复”(Reply)然后“送出”(Send)。我们将会很快地送出一封确认信给您。

（如果您因任何理由而不想订阅中文每日灵修，请忽视这封电子邮件即可。）

由RayStedman.org的朋友敬上

Thanks again, Greg

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
wrote:

> Greg Sims writes:
>  > Here is the URL to subscribe to the list:
>  >
>  > http://www.raystedman.org/daily-devotions/subscribe/chinese
>  >
>  > Thanks for helping Stephen.
>  >
>  > Here is what the original line in verify.txt looks like:
>  >
>  > 订阅邮件列表 %(listname)s 的确认通知
>  >
>  > This appears quite different than the first line you included in your
>  > email.  Do they look the same to you?
>
> Yes, they do.  But did I forget to tell you that I was once a ranking
> authority on Oriental text encodings, with a book, a chapter in
> another, and three magazine articles on the subject? :-)  Of course I
> cheated and invoked a decoder by hand, getting this:
>
>     订阅邮件列表 Chinese-Devotion 的确认通知
>
> My Chinese student tells me that the order of the sentences doesn't
> seem very Chinese (probably a literal translation from the English
> version?), but that each sentence is perfectly intelligible.  So I
> think the problem is that for some reason Apple's mail client refused
> to decode the UTF-8 and display Chinese, or something like that.  The
> mail as sent by Mailman is almost surely not corrupted.
>
> It will take a day or two for me to get back to this, I have a very
> busy day tomorrow (reporting deadline to my employer for Japanese
> taxes).
>
>