[Mailman-Users] Character encoding for mass subscribtion?

[Mark Sapiro]

On 06/25/2013 05:46 AM, e.c. wrote:

>> Have a look at this link:
>>
>> http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/08/17/convert-mailman-translation-to-utf-8/
>>
>> I don't understand the def _(s) function but since ascii is a subset of
>> utf-8, it's safe to use iconv going from ascii (or iso-8859-1) to utf-8.


The def _(s) was copied from Defaults.py and is a device for allowing
the strings representing the language names to be seen as needing i18n,
but not translating them too soon.

Putting something like

def _(s):
  return s
add_language('sv',    _('Swedish'),       'utf-8')
del _

in mm_cfg.py works, but is way to complicated. All that is needed is the
single line

add_language('sv',    'Swedish',       'utf-8')


>> Maybe all you needed was to add (or change) the line
>>
>> DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'utf-8'
>>
>> in mm_config.py.


That setting is historical and currently has no effect.

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