Dear all,
I am trying to understand how to fix this issue, sorry if it came up
before. It must have, still I couldn't find a working solution through
Google:
The default language of my server is de (German), which has several
non-ASCII characters (umlauts & ß).
Lately the issue is that in the standard setting
(DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'de'), all the system messages are rendered
properly, (for instance on the list overview page: "Für Administratoren
der Listen gibt es die Seite Übersichtsseite für Listenadministratoren
zur Verwaltung der eigenen Liste. ") but the the UTF-8 of the list
descriptions is rendered as two-character sequences: "Diskussion
(öffentlich)" instead of "Diskussion (Öffentlich)", the same is true
for the footers of all messages delivered to subscribers: "Für
Eintragung, Löschung (...)" instead öf "Für Eintragung, Löschung (...)".
Now, I tried to remedy this by adding "add_language('de', 'Deutsch',
'utf-8', 'ltr')" to /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py but after doing so, while the
UTF-8 code is now rendered correctly as single characters, the
translated system messages are now being garbled: "Unten finden Sie eine
Aufstellung aller �ffentlichen Mailinglisten (...)"
How do I ensure that both the system messages? The .po file for de seems
to be in latin1 (iso-8859-1), not UTF-8. Is this on purpose? The Russian
one is in proper UTF-8, but the French and Spanish ones are also in
Latin1. The server is on Ubuntu 20.04, running mailman 2.1.29, which
seems to be way behind upstream.
I kind of half fixed it locally by
1. recoding the po file from latin1 to utf-8,
2. re-running msgfmt,
3. re-running dpkg-reconfigure -plow mailman and selecting the default
language
4. adding add_language('de', 'Deutsch', 'utf-8', 'ltr') to
/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py
5. restarting mailman
At first glance, everything seems to be in order now, just that the main
welcome pages both for users and administrators are now stubbornly in
English, while everything else in German, now with proper Umlauts. Is
this an issue with the Debian/Ubuntu package? What is the canonical way
of dealing with it?
Thanks a lot for your advice!
Johannes
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