Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > >Thank you! Yes, when I switched the language for subscribers to Polish, I >got a notice in Polish. I am still trying to see if I can take it a step >further. > >I edited $prefix/mailman/messages/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po and commented >out line 10230 (msgid "Password // URL" and its Polish translation) and >altered line 10234 (msgid "%(host)s mailing list memberships reminder"). I >saved the file and ran sudo /usr/local/bin/python -S >/usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds however, this appears to have had no >effect on mailing.
Two things here: If you 'comment out' or otherwise alter the 'msgid' value, you guarantee that the message will be rendered in English. This is because the English Language string is in the actual code and when the i18n module is called to translate it, it uses the English string to look up the corresponding 'msgid' and find the translation in the corresponding 'msgstr'. If it doesn't find an exact match for the English string in the 'msgid' strings, it can't provide a translation at all. Thus, unless the hard coded English message in the Mailman code changes, you can't change 'msgid'. The other thing is mailman.po is the source. The file that's actually used is mailman.mo. If you change mailman.po, you have to run msgfmt to creat a new mailman.mo. You can use the standard GNU msgfmt, but some mailman.po files have 'errors' it doesn't like so it is safer to use Mailman's bin/msgfmt.py. >Mark - I know have no right to ask for any future features but would you >consider offering future mailman versions more suited for newsletter type >of things? Maybe a general switch during list creation to distinguish >between discussion lists (with its own set of settings) and a newsletter >type of lists where most of the settings are redundant (digets, passwords, >option pages). You have as much right as anyone to request features. We have had discussions which I don't have time to look up right now of adding a theme concept to list creation. I.e. a 'discussion' theme, an 'announcement' theme, etc. Then you could specify a theme for a list and it would be set up appropriately. I'm not sure either where we are with implementation this. Anyway, see the wiki at <http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Mailman+2.2> regarding plans and feature requests. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp