[Mailman-Developers] subscription notification mail body

Stanisław Findeisen stf.list.mailman.dev at eisenbits.com
Mon May 14 08:42:19 CEST 2012


On 2012-05-14 01:58, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Stanislaw Findeisen wrote:
>>
>> Subscription notification mail body is also distorted sometimes: I just
>> received one for a new subscriber who used a diacritic in his name.
>> There is '?' (ASCII 0x3F) instead of the character with diacritic.
> 
> 
> I think this is because your list's preferred language is English and
> Mailman's character set for English is us-ascii so the message body is
> coerced to ascii and non-ascii characters get replaced by '?'.
> 
> If this is a serious issue, you can change Mailman's character set for
> English to UTF-8 by putting
> 
> add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'utf-8', 'ltr')
> 
> in mm_cfg.py.

Why don't we use utf-8 for all languages in Defaults.py?

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