On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Geoff Shang wrote:
The problem is that when she tried entering in Hebrew descriptions and welcome
messages, she got text like this:
קבוצת
[snip]
NOte that the default list language was set to English, if that makes any
difference. Would the default language need to be set to Hebrew to make these
fields input correctly when the form is submitted?
Either that or set the character set for English to UTF-8 if you/she
has that ability. It requires putting
add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'utf-8', 'ltr')
in mm_cfg.py and restarting Mailman.
I can do this, as I am an admin on the system where this is hosted.
I see now that there are entries like this in Defaults.py. So the entry
in mm_cfg.py will overwrite this as it's meant to.
Maybe a stupid question, but why not have it utf-8 for all of them? I
mean, isn't that the whole point of unicode, that it just works
everywhere? Or does it need to match the character set of the
messages/templates?
There is another possibility. In recent versions prior to 2.1.13, HTML
entities like < or ק were escaped as &lt; or &#1511;
for the web interface. If this is the issue, the underlying data are
correct; they just display incorrectly in the web admin interface.
No, this was wrong in Email messages too. But the default English
character set is US/ASCII so that's hardly surprising.
All this has led me to look at I18N, as it's not an area I've looked at
before in Mailman. And I've got a couple of questions:
1. There's add_language lines for every supported language in
Defaults.py, but only languages located in /etc/mailman/<languagecode> are
actually available. Does Mailman check for them here or is there some
other Mailman glue that says which languages are actually available for
use?
2. Further to this, I can only find the template files and not the
messages file. Where should these be located on a Debian system?
Thanks,
Geoff.
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