Dear all, As a quick fix I have now recoded the mailman.po for de to from latin1 to utf8 and re-compiled it with msgfmt. This seems to fix things. BTW, I stumbled across a problem with the mo file, that I had to fix first.
Now it looks ok. Cheers, Johannes Am 08.08.20 um 15:27 schrieb Johannes Rohr: > > Dear all, > > I am looking for a way to ensure that everything is in proper UTF-8 in > the web interface Specifically, my problem is that messages from > gettext for German are inserted in ISO-8859-1 while for other > languages I have tested, including Norwegian and Russian, mailman > seems to generate proper UTF-8, even without explicitly enabling UTF-8 > in mm_cfg.py. > > As an example, take > https://lists.uferwerk.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/huehner > > "Um frühere Nachrichten an diese Liste zu sehen, besuchen Sie bitte > das Archiv der Liste Huehner > <https://lists.uferwerk.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/huehner/>. (/Das > aktuelle Archiv ist nur f�r die Abonnenten der Liste zug�nglich./)" > > When I inspect the source code of the German page, I see that part of > the umlauts are properly encoded as html entities such as ü, > ä and others are not, they are plain ISO-8819-1 and thusly get > screwed up, when the browser interprets the page as UTF-8. They seem > to be inserted on-the-fly by the python interpreter, from > /var/lib/mailman/messages/de/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po and I notice that > /var/lib/mailman/messages/de/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po is in ISO-8859-1, > not in UTF-8. > > In mm_cfg.py I have done what the manual recommends > <https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.90%20My%20list%27s%20moderator%20interface%20and%20plain%20format%20digests%20have%20garbled%20non-ascii.%20Change%20English%20charset%20to%20utf-8.>. > Without it, the message strings get rendered correctly, while the list > descriptions from the configuration, which are apparently in UTF-8 get > rendered as two letter strings: "*Huehner -- Liste für alle > Hühner-Eltern im Uferwerk".* > > Can someone maybe tell me what I can do to reconcile this apparent > mismatch? > > Thanks so much in advance, > > Johannes > > * > * > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
