In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:54:19 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >>The issue is msg_footer is assumed to be in the character set of the >>list's language, us-ascii by default for English. I don't think Mailman >>does the right thing in this case. > >>From my perspective, the problem is that by having these things >defined in mm_cfg.py, all mailman administrators are stuck with >whatever decisions their mailman host made for whatever language >they chose as the default language for their list. But you and I >could quite easily both want English(USA) as the default language >for our lists, but you also want us-ascii while I want utf-8. The >way things stand now, we cannot both use the same mailman host, and >both get what we want, correct? > >Now that my problem has gone from 'getting the EP footers to work' to >'understanding what exactly is going on here'. And right now I do not >see why the charset for the lists' language has to be hard coded in >mm_cfg.py, nor why there has to be exactly one value for any given language >which mailman supports. > >Thank you for your patience, >Still trying to understand here, >Laura
Sorry about this note -- mail is arriving in an odd order here. The mail where you explained this perfectly arrived after your other mail, so I was still confused when I wrote this note. Laura ------------------------------------------------------ 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
