On 6/25/17 2:15 AM, Sergey Maslennikov wrote: > > We tried to upgrade Mailman from v. 2.1.9 to v. 2.1.20 (default for > Ubuntu 16.04) and discovered that for Russian language, mailman scripts > tuned the browsers to receive UTF-8 encoded text. How can we turn > mailman back to KOI8-R?
There are multiple things going on here. In Mailman 2.1.19, the character set for Russian (and Romanian) was changed to UTF-8. This was described in the NEWS for 2.1.19 as follows: > - Mailman's character set for Russian has been changed from koi8-r to > utf-8 and the templates and messages recoded. This change will > require running 'bin/arch --wipe' on any existing Russian language > lists in order to recode the list's archives, and will require recoding > any edited templates in lists/LISTNAME/ru/*, templates/DOMAIN/ru/* and > templates/site/ru/*. It may also require recoding any existing koi8-r > text in list attributes. (LP: #1418448) > > - Mailman's versions.py has been augmented to help with the above two > character set changes. The first time a list with preferred_language > of Romanian or Russian is accessed or upon upgrade to this release, > any list attributes which have string values such as description, info, > welcome_msg, etc. that appear to be in the old character set will be > converted to utf-8. This is done recursively for the values (but not > the keys) of dictionary attributes and the elements of list and tuple > attributes. Independently, Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) responded to <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398777> with <https://sources.debian.net/patches/mailman/1:2.1.18-2%2Bdeb8u1/91_utf8.patch/> which forces all languages to UTF-8 encoding and because it neglects to do the list attribute string recoding, caused other issues. See <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2016-January/080278.html> and <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1462755>. Probably the least disruptive way for you to reverse this is the following: 1) add this line to mm_cfg.py LC_DESCRIPTIONS['ru'] = ('Russian', 'koi8-r', 'ltr') You can't use add_language here because the Debian patch redefines that to force utf-8. 2) recode messages/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po with `iconv f=utf-8 t=koi8-r' and run 'msgfmt -o messages/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo messages/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po' to recompile the message catalog. 3) recode all the templates in templates/ru -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-i18n mailing list Posts: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-i18n/archive%40mail-archive.com
