Wrong charset for German messages

[Daniel Robitaille]

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From: Cip-Admin <email address hidden>
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:28:40 +0200
Subject: mailman: Wrong charset for German messages
Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-9ubuntu4
Severity: normal

The German Messages for Mailman are utf-8 encoded. However in
/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py the German messages are added with
add_language('de', _('German'), 'iso-8859-1')

This results in messed up umlauts in the user's Webbrowser.

Change it to
add_language('de', _('German'), 'utf-8')
and everything works fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers dapper-updates
 APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.20-xen-cip3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii apache2-mpm-prefork [ht 2.0.55-4ubuntu2 traditional model for Apache2
ii cron 3.0pl1-92ubuntu1 management of regular background p
ii debconf 1.4.72ubuntu9 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim4-daemon-light [mai 4.60-3ubuntu3.1 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii logrotate 3.7.1-2 Log rotation utility
ii pwgen 2.04-1ubuntu1 Automatic Password generation
ii python 2.4.2-0ubuntu3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii ucf 2.004 Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages mailman recommends:
ii base-passwd 3.5.11 Debian base system master password

-- debconf information:
* mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: de, en
 mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/used_languages: en
* mailman/default_server_language: de
* mailman/create_site_list:

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Is this a debian system with dapper packages loaded onto them ?

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

I have checked /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py on feisty and it contains indeed a line "add_language('de', _('German'), 'iso-8859-1')" which would disply German umlaute wrongly on a webserver configured to show pages in utf-8 encoding.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Created upstream bug report to debian and linked this bug to it

[H.-Dirk Schmitt (dirk-computer42)]

IMHO fixed with the utf conversion in mailman 2.1.16 ( saucy and later)

[Robie Basak (racb)]

This was reported fixed in Debian 2.1.16-2, and Wily has 2.1.20-1, so marked Fix Released in Ubuntu. Looks like Precise is still affected, though.