On 01/07/2016 12:40 PM, Eva Isaksson wrote: > 2016-01-07 22:12 GMT+02:00 Mark Sapiro <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > On 01/07/2016 11:44 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> I think simply re-entering the description and saving changes will fix >> this, but you should probably go through the entire web admin UI and do >> the same for any other non-ascii strings. > > Am I right in thinking that this option would mean choosing the debian utf-8 > alternative? We have some 750 lists, so checking all of them would have to > happen outside the web admin UI, i.e. from command line.
You can keep the Debian package with it's utf-8 character sets and programmatically change all your lists so they work. In MM 2.1.19 I changed the character sets for Russian and Romanian from koi8-r and iso-8859-2 respectively to utf-8 because I was convinced that the former character sets were not appropriate for those languages. In so doing, I augmented Mailman's version updater to identify strings in list attributes that were not valid utf-8 and convert them from the former character set. This is an imperfect process. It does guarantee that all the strings in list attributes are valid utf-8 encodings, but not necessarily that they are 'correct'. I am working on a stand-alone script to do this. I will post it later today. >> You could install Mailman from source. See the FAQ at >> <http://wiki.list.org/x/17891606> for info. > > Does this allow for keeping all the settings and passwords from the old > package > installation intact? The number of lists is so big that I want to be on > the safe > side. Yes. Installing the latest GNU Mailman source over the Debian package following <http://wiki.list.org/x/17891606> will not change any list data, but there may be other issues depending on what if any Debian patches you choose to install. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
