[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#668304: mailman: Translations should use unicode charset

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

> That solution is a hack, really. The gettext system was designed to
> allow translators to use whatever charset encoding they wish, and
> there is no need to change all the translations for that.
> 
> What you need is translations to be *shown* in your own charset, not
> translations to *be* in UTF8, which is usually irrelevant.
> 
> The gettext system takes care of charset conversion but apparently
> it's not working properly.
> 
> So yes, there seems to be a bug somewhere, but modifying all the
> translations is the wrong solution.
I did not know gettext was able to handle charsets, but if so, fixing the 
problem should be even easier. Mailman just has to tell gettext to return 
everything encoded as UTF-8?
There are some template html files though which I think do not use gettext, so 
those need to be actually converted.

Kind regards,
Ralf