[Mailman-i18n] set charset in outgoing Mailman messages

Josh Zlatin-Amishav josh at tkos.co.il
Mon Feb 13 20:40:56 CET 2006


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> Josh Zlatin-Amishav wrote:
>> Can you elaborate? Right now all Mailman messages are sent using
>> us-ascii. If iso-8859-8 (or iso-8859-8-i) are recognized charsets, and
>> the DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'iw' how to I tell Mailman to use
>> iso-8859-8-1 instead of us-ascii.
>
> What's wrong with using us-ascii? Mailman will always use us-ascii
> if that is sufficient to represent the message.

My problem is that most of my end users are using MS Outlook and the
Mailman messages that are in iso-8859-8 are not recognized in Outlook as such. I
believe if I can set the charset in the Mailman messages to iso-8859-8
then Outlook will render them correctly.

--
  - Josh

>
> Try sending something that is not supported in us-ascii.
>
> Or, better yet, please give us an example of a message that you
> consider incorrect, and state what you would like to see
> corrected.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>


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