On 01/07/2016 01:20 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > 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.
There is now a first cut at this script. The functions that do the recoding are lifted straight from Mailman/versions.py so they have been fairly well exercised. I didn't just import them because I wanted the caller to know if they had changed anything and that required a minor addition to the top level function to return a flag. The script is at <https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/recode_list> (mirrored at <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/recode_list>) Install the script in Mailman's bin/ directory and run it with the -h option for full info. It uses Python's argparse function and as such requires python 2.7. In your case, to convert all Finnish preferred_language lists strings from iso-8859-1 encoding to utf-8 recode_list --language=fi would suffice. There are options to specify other than iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and to produce output about skipped or unchanged lists, but the defaults should be good for you and will report which lists were changed. In no case does it report the actual changes, just what lists were changed. I recommend making backups of your lists/*/config.pck files before running this in case something goes wrong. -- 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
