[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#420309: Wrong charset for German messages

Ralph Janke rjanke at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Apr 21 14:48:17 UTC 2007


Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.9-4

Upstream report from ubuntu bugtracking system: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailman/+bug/51925

The German Messages for Mailman are utf-8 encoded. However in
 /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py the German messages are added with

 add_language('de', _('German'), 'iso-8859-1')

This results in messed up umlauts in the user's Webbrowser.
Change it to

 add_language('de', _('German'), 'utf-8')

 and everything works fine.


Thanks.





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