On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Urwald Urwald <urw...@rocketmail.com>wrote:
> > > Hello. > > I want to mass-subscribe some mail addresses in mailman. I have a list of > (spanish) names and the mail addresses. The names usually contain non-ascii > characters like a with akute (á), e with acute (é), n with tilde (ñ) and so > on. Mailman doesn't import these names correctly. Why not??? > > I've tried it with entering the list in the web browser. Not working > correctly. I've tried to upload a UTF8-encoded text file. Not working > correctly. I've tried some other encodings. Not working. > > However, I've tested it with a file containing only 1 mail address and > "áéíóóúñÑ" as name. Finally the upload was working when I used 8859-15. > Than I have converted my big address list to 8859-15, and now it didn't > work anymore. Yes, I can reproduce that. Does mailman try to auto-recognize > the character encoding? > > 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. > Maybe all you needed was to add (or change) the line > > DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'utf-8' > > in mm_config.py. > > The example shows sv (Sverige) and _("Swedish"). This might need es and > _("Spanish") although I don't > see why it's needed since utf-8 should allow for an unequivocal > representation of many alphabets in the > same document. > > > How can I get this working??? I need some help. > > > Cheers > > Tim > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/eminmn%40sysmatrix.net > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
