On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Elanjelian Venugopal <tamil...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I think this digest problem is particular to launchpad only. I receive > daily-digests from Pootle without any trouble viewing the Tamil > content present. So, the list owners could consider filing an issue > with Launchpad folks. > > -e. > Actually this has been identified problem with mail lists using "Mailman". The "freetamilcomputing" mail list of Thamizha.com is other example. See Ravichandran's message and 3 reply messages to it starting from: http://lists.thamizha.com/pipermail/freetamilcomputing_lists.thamizha.com/2008-December/000943.html (000944.html, 000946.html and 000947.html are the three responses) I had just changed the option for digest from the default Plain Text to MIME for my another subscription. After getting my first digest I will post my findings on whether MIME option solves the problem. ~Sethu கா. சேது கற்றது கைமண்ணளவு கல்லாதது உலகளவு ------------------------------------ > > 2009/2/17 கா. சேது | K. Sethu <skh...@gmail.com>: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Abdul Haleem <ahalee...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Only the digest mode subscription having problems like that. > >> > > > > The same problem is seen in post acknowledgements send by the list. > Today I > > enabled "Receive acknowledgement mail when you send mail to the list?" in > > the options page for my subscription. For the two messages I sent since > then > > the acknowledgement notices came back with Tamil content in Subject field > > replaced with question marks. > > > > For example for my message > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-l10n-tam/2009-February/001724.html > > with Subject: சோதனை மடல் (Testing) I got following acknowledgment: > > > >> > >> From: <ubuntu-l10n-tam-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com> > >> > >> Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM > >> > >> Subject: Ubuntu-l10n-tam post acknowledgement > >> > >> To: skh...@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> Your message entitled > >> > >> ????? ???? (Testing) > >> > >> was successfully received by the Ubuntu-l10n-tam mailing list. > >> > >> List info page: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam > >> > > [..] > > > > I found the reason for that problem as follows: > > > > Looking at the original I see following entries with regard to content > > transfer: > > > >> MIME-Version: 1.0 > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Although it says MIME it really encodes with 7 bit "us-ascii" and and so > > utf-8 contents get destroyed in transfer. > > > > On the other hand individual email postings which come with utf-8 content > > intact (i.e., Tamil content readable) show they are base 64 encoded > (which > > is a MIME variety) with charset="utf-8". > > > > In case of Digest postings there is an option in the options page for > your > > subscription (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/options/ubuntu-l10n-tam ) > as > > follows: > > > >> Get MIME or Plain Text Digests? > >> > >> Your mail reader may or may not support MIME digests. In general MIME > >> digests are preferred, but if you have a problem reading them, select > plain > >> text digests. > > > > So those who want it in Digest mode (and don't want to switch to the > problem > > free option of individual email postings) and having the reported problem > , > > I request you to do the following: > > > > 1. Let this mail list know which of the two options you are having? > > > > 2. Change the option to from what you have to the other and then send a > test > > mail to the list including Tamil content to the list and wait for the > next > > digest (does it come once every 24 hrs?) and see that solves the problem. > > > > If any of the moderators know for sure from past that either of the two > > options do not solve the problem, please do inform the same so that > others > > need not bother to test (For sure I will be testing this with a > subscription > > I made earlier today with another email id but I am still awaiting the > > moderator approval for that subscription) > > > > If the problem is not solvable immediately I would suggest to the Digest > > receivers to consider changing to individual emails like, (I guess) the > > majority of us do. Other option is not to have email postings but read > and > > respond from web interface of the list. > > > > ~Sethu > > > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-l10n-tam mailing list > > Ubuntu-l10n-tam@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-l10n-tam mailing list > Ubuntu-l10n-tam@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam >
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