Hi, Laura! Laura Creighton writes:
> But the Europython mailing list is configured so that its messages > come out > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This isn't from the list or site configuration, this is from the poster's mail user agent (MUA). The mailing list does not choose the charset for the message; the MUA does. For example, grepping my archive of python-dev messages I see 3 different variants of UTF-8 (capitalization and quoting), us-ascii, iso-8859-1, and window-1252 (each in several variants). Mailman already has about 200 lines of logic to handle cases where the footer charset is incompatible with the message's charset. Have you tried simply changing the Python escape to a literal EN DASH in the web interface? I hope Mailman is smart enough to convert that to Unicode internally, and all should Just Work[tm]. If that doesn't work, change the EN DASH to "--", and report it as a bug. We'll see what we can do in 2.1.19, before EuroPython is held in Göteborg or Łódź. :-/ > Since \x96 is an unrecognised character in us-ascii, It's not even a character here, it's a raw byte, which may or may not get recognized correctly by Mailman depending on the list's preferred charset. Somebody was way too tricky for their own good. > But unless I have overlooked something, there is no way to make a charset > change on a per-list basis through the mailman administrative interface. There's no way to make a charset change in posts at all; it's not Mailman's job to do that, really. I suppose we could convert all posts to UTF-8, which would make the logic mentioned above a lot simpler, but that would probably annoy a few people and might not work for some variant charsets. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
