[Mailman-Developers] handling multi-byte characters in templates

[JasonR.Mastaler]

When Mailman.Utils.maketext() does string substitution in a template
containing multi-byte characters (such as in templates/ja/), how does
it avoid errors during dictionary interpolation?

TMDA is using a nearly identical function to make text from templates,
but certain multi-byte characters (Japanese in particular) in the
templates trigger the following exceptions:

          ValueError: incomplete format key

          TypeError: not enough arguments for format string

Someone suggested that the Japanese text probably has characters in it
that include an ascii % as part of the multi-byte character.

I'm wondering how Mailman gets around this problem.

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