[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm seeing problems when I put certain Japanese strings in template > files.
[...] > File "./TMDA/Util.py", line 602, in maketext > TypeError: not enough arguments for format string [...] > When I remove the Japanese text, I don't see the problem occurring > -- i.e. I get normal behavior. FWIW, it appears to occur with some > Japanese text but not others. I decided to revisit[1] this issue given the recent interest in making TMDA more multi-lingual. What I learned is that Japanese is the most difficult language to deal with when internationalizing applications <wink>. Here is the executive summary: Japanese has three coding schemes (iso-2022-jp, shift-jis, and euc-jp). iso-2022-jp is used for mail and news messages. However, iso-2022-jp is not well suited for programming because it is 7bit and contains special characters like `\', `%', and `&'. This is what is causing problems for TMDA when iso-2022-jp is used directly in the templates. The consensus for how to deal with this is: o Store the templates in euc-jp which will not cause Python problems when doing string substitution via dictionary interpolation. o Then before the message is sent, convert the euc-jp text to iso-2022-jp. This is how Mailman does it, and TMDA's template system is almost identical to theirs. The email package includes the code to do these conversions. The only other alternatives are to escape all `%' signs as `%%', or do a double charset conversion. That is, store the templates in iso-2022-jp, then convert to euc-jp before string substitution, and then convert back to iso-2022-jp before sending. Both of these look pretty ugly to me. I don't have much experience with Japanese input methods, so do you anticipate any problems with this? i.e, will it be easy for Japanese TMDA users to maintain their templates in euc-jp instead of iso-2022-jp? Footnotes: 1. For more details, see the mailman-developers thread I started at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail-21/mailman-developers/2002-September/013266.html _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
