Hendrik Maryns wrote: > > I just started a new mailing list with Mailman. The welcome_msg is in > German and contains üäö. Then I subscribed myself to the list and got > the following: > > Hallöchen, Beiträge erwünscht, aber übertreibt es > nicht, ne.
What is the list's preferred language? If it is English (or if it was English when you set the welcome_msg), this is expected because Mailman's character set for English is us-ascii and the page you're posting from was sent with charset=us-ascii so your browser sends the non-ascii characters as numeric html entities. If the list's preferred language is German, whose charset is iso-8859-1, when you set the welcome_msg, this should not happen. > Furthermore, if I know log into the admin area, it gives the same text, > that is, with all non-ASCII replaced by entities! The reason you see the numeric HTML entities rather that the browser's rendering of them is over-protective escaping of the '&' in the HTML entity, but in this case, that's actually appropriate because the ultimate use of this message is in a plain text email where the HTML entities won't be rendered as characters anyway. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
