Recently, I was asked to set our mailman installation to utf-8. Our server is running the debian 2.1.9 mailman package. I did this, and it "works" -- but I have a question anyway.
I started with the current settings: default language Finnish, charset iso-8859-1. The changes made for utf-8 included: - changing the template files and the Finnish translation file into utf-8 with iconv. - fixing the mm_cfg.py by making DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'UTF-8' and copying the relevant litany of LC_DESCRIPTIONS from Defaults.py into mm_cfg.py and setting Finnish into utf-8. Now, the problem that keeps puzzling me: 1. Before the change, mails with charset=iso-8859-1 and charset=utf-8 were being distributed with the charset untouched. I figured out as this is how it should be - right? 2. As our server hosts a lot of lists (almost 400 of them) I decided to try utf-8 out on a smaller scale first, on an Ubuntu server, running only a couple of lists with its standard mailman package, version 2.1.5. The utf-8 change was a success. The webpages and archive were all okay, and the charset of mails was untouched too. 3. As things looked promising, I decided to proceed with our real list server. The result: Web pages, archive, all okay, now in utf-8. Mails... all of them in utf-8. And I mean ALL mails. My question: was this to be expected? Is everything meant to be in utf-8 from now on, including the forcing of charset=utf-8 into all list mail headers? And why didn't this happen neither with the iso-8859-1 settings, nor with the Ubuntu server? - Eva -- Eva Isaksson * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.helsinki.fi/~eisaksso/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp