On 6/27/25 06:09, Gabriele Carioli via Mailman-Users wrote:
I've recently upgraded an ancient 2.1.12 mailman installation to 2.1.39 and
noticed an encoding issue, when adding users via add_members.
Steps to reproduce and fix the issue:
1. Put these accented user names in an utf-8 file (users-utf-8.txt):
Těst Accénti <[email protected]>
Mariò Rosśi <[email protected]>
2. Set un a dummy list "dummylist" with it(alian) and en(glish) as languages
3. Set italian as main language
4. remove_members --all -n -N dummylist
5. add_members -a n -w n -r users-utf-8.txt dummylist
You will see garbage and encoding problems in the output, which you will see
also on the web interface.
The Default charset for Italian in Mailman 2.1 is iso-8859-1, not utf-8.
The issue is your utf-8 encoded accented letters are being interpreted
as iso-8859-1. Thus when the utf-8 encoded
Těst Accénti <[email protected]>
Mariò Rosśi <[email protected]>
is decoded as iso-8859-1, it looks something like
TÄ<9b>st Accénti <[email protected]>
Mariò RosÅ<9b>i <[email protected]>
You can change the encoding for Italian from iso-8859-1 to utf-8, but in
addition to recoding the message catalog as you have done, you also have
to add
add_language('it', _('Italian'), 'utf-8', 'ltr')
to mm_cfg.py. Also, if you have any iso-8859-1 strings in the list's
configuration, you have to recode those. There is a script at
https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/recode_list that can do that.
Possibly you had already done some or all of this in your 2.1.12
installation before upgrading.
--
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San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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