[Mailman-Users] Icelandic: Digest character set problem

[Mordur Ingolfsson]

Hi, thanks for your reply Mr. Sapiro. I had already tried this:


######### CODE ###########
def _(s):
    return s

add_language('en',    _('English (USA)'),       'iso-8859-1')

del _
#########  CODE ############

as I had  found this in some mailing list archive.  This does not seem
to work. Neither does this:

add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'iso-8859-15', 'ltr')

Which I also tried.


Still stumped.

Thanks,

Mordur Ingolfsson


Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Mordur Ingolfsson wrote:
>   
>> I am running a list with mostly Icelandic users. Icelandic character set
>> is filled with strange and exotic accents and weird caracters. My digest
>> users get  those accented characters changed to question marks, such as
>> here:
>>
>> ?eir sem eru ?samm?la ?v? a? leggja ?a? ni?ur svari ?essum p?sti me?
>> inf?ldu "nei"
>>
>> The ordinary subscribers to the list get the messages unchanged. What, I
>> ask, am I to do about this?
>>     
>
>
> The best answer would be to change the list's preferred_language to
> Icelandic, but unfortunately, there is no Icelandic i18n for Mailman.
> If you or someone or some group you know is interested in translating
> Mailman to Icelandic, I'm sure you could get help and advice from the
> mailman-i18n at python.org list
> <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-i18n>.
>
> The next option, assuming the list's preferred_language is English, is
> to change Mailman's character set for English from 'us-ascii' to
> 'iso-8859-1'. You (or the Mailman admin at your host) would do this by
> putting the line
>
> add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'iso-8859-1', 'ltr')
>
> in mm_cfg.py and restarting Mailman.
>
>