[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#785642: Bug#785642: Bug#785642: queue runner dies with uncaught UnicodeDecodeError

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:03:50PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Hoi Wouter,
> 
> I got some questions back from upstream, can you help?
> 
> 
> Actually, the traceback says what's happening is CookHeaders is trying
> to create the List-Id: header to be added to the message.
> 
> It tries to create a header of the form:
> 
> List-Id: list description <list.example.com>
> 
> And the exception occurs when trying to rfc 2047 encode the list's
> description in the charset of the list's preferred language. This
> exception should be occurring on every list post. Is that the case?

Yes.

> Also, what is the list's preferred_language and what is the raw value of
> the list's description attribute. Obtain this info with something like:
> 
> $ bin/withlist list1
> Loading list list1 (unlocked)
> The variable `m' is the list1 MailList instance
> >>> m.preferred_language
> 'en'
> >>> m.description
> 'My List one'
> >>>

root at barbershop:~# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist caljente
Loading list caljente (unlocked)
The variable `m' is the caljente MailList instance
>>> m.preferred_language
'nl'
>>> m.description
'Lijst voor Caljent\xe9-leden'
>>> 

Not sure what encoding that is. I've changed it to "Caljente" for now, which
should be a reasonable workaround.

Thanks,

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