[Mailman-Users] Language encoding and digests...

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Apr 6 15:17:20 CEST 2007


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On Apr 6, 2007, at 5:02 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> No, this is a problem that Mailman can handle, at least in theory.
> I'm not familiar enough with Python codecs to deny that Python's codec
> API and implementation may admit some improvements we'd like to see,
> ditto the email module's usage of codecs.  However, Mailman can
> definitely catch the UnicodeError that the codec throws, and shunt or
> munge the offending message (eg, replace unknown characters).  For
> safety's sake, save off a copy, maybe.  This doesn't have to shut down
> even the affected list's digests, and should not.

+1
- -Barry

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