[Mailman-Users] Text encoding of digests

[Christian Buser via Mailman-Users]

Hi all

I have a list with Mailman 2.1.39 running on cPanel (so, no direct
access to the server settings).

When the daily digest is sent, it comes with these headers:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

even if messages are sent with charactest "outside" the 7bit us-ascii
table. Therefore, all these characters are replaced by a question mark
(?), making the text difficult to read.

Contrary to the digests, individual messages come perfectly with
encoding "utf-8":

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

I did not find the possibility to change the header in the "digest
options" of the mailing list.

Thank you for your ideas
Christian

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[Mailman-Users] Re: Text encoding of digests

[Mark Sapiro]

On 2/21/24 13:49, Christian Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:

Hi all

I have a list with Mailman 2.1.39 running on cPanel (so, no direct
access to the server settings).

...

I did not find the possibility to change the header in the "digest
options" of the mailing list.



If in the web admin UI you go to Language options and set 
preferred_language to German (you may also need to select German under 
available_languages), I think that will work, assuming the current 
preferred_language is English.


A better solution is to set the character set for English to UTF-8, but 
that requires access to mm_cfg.py on the server, see 
.


Of course setting the list's preferred_language to German will have 
other effects which may be unwanted such as changing the default 
language of the web UI and translating the digest boilerplate.


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[Mailman-Users] Re: Text encoding of digests

[Christian via Mailman-Users]

Hello Mark Sapiro. On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:50:37 -0800, you wrote:

> If in the web admin UI you go to Language options and set 
> preferred_language to German (you may also need to select German 
> under available_languages), I think that will work, assuming the 
> current preferred_language is English.

I changed this now, and will see what happens.

> A better solution is to set the character set for English to UTF-8, 
> but that requires access to mm_cfg.py on the server, see 
> .

As you said, this is not possible with the cPanel version of Mailman. 
 
> Of course setting the list's preferred_language to German will have 
> other effects which may be unwanted such as changing the default 
> language of the web UI and translating the digest boilerplate.

This is not a problem for me, I am native German speaking, bur worked half of 
my life in companies where the office language was English :-)

Thank you
Christian 

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[Mailman-Users] Re: Text encoding of digests

[Mark Sapiro]

On 2/21/24 15:00, Christian via Mailman-Users wrote:

Hello Mark Sapiro. On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:50:37 -0800, you wrote:


A better solution is to set the character set for English to UTF-8,
but that requires access to mm_cfg.py on the server, see
.


As you said, this is not possible with the cPanel version of Mailman.


To be clear, it is perfectly possible to do this in cPanel's Mailman and 
you might be able to convince the hosting service to do it. The 
difficulty is that most customers of a hosting service with a shared 
cPanel server do not have sufficient access to do it themselves.


I.e., the issue isn't cPanel Mailman per se, but rather insufficient 
access. See https://wiki.list.org/x/4030641 for more about cPanel Mailman.


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