Change encoding of Russian messages to UTF-8 by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNU Mailman |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Mark Sapiro |
Bug Description
Koi8-r Russian encoding which is used nowadays by Mailman needs to be changed to Unicode. In spite of Koi8-r is most respectful Russian encoding which was in fact standard in ancient times, now it is used on less than 0.1% of sites (http://
Practically, we need to switch to UTF for letting users of Mailman work convenient with bin/scripts in console, which now also Unicode-encoded in most cases. Also most of modern text editors support Unicode by default and may not support other encodings which make editing of template files less convenient and even tricky for some cases.
It is not so important for web-interface if we use Russian with English only, as usual. But if we need to put text in several languages on customized pages, we couldn't do this with Koi-8r encoding.
Related branches
Changed in mailman: | |
assignee: | nobody → Mark Sapiro (msapiro) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → 2.1.19 |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in mailman: | |
milestone: | 2.1.19 → 2.1.19rc2 |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |