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10.3 How do I set my preferred language?</a>
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Mailman is available with many different languages.
(For a complete listing see <a class="url" href="http://mailman.sourceforge.net/i18n.html">http://mailman.sourceforge.net/i18n.html</a>.)  This means that, if your list has
other languages enabled, you may be able to have the web interface, etc. in a 
language of your choice.  

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<span class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b>
This does NOT necessarily mean that all the posts sent to the list will 
be in the language you selected.  Only the pre-prepared texts presented by 
Mailman will be affected by this setting.  Posts are in whatever language the
poster uses.</span>

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Your preferred language is set when you subscribe (see 
Section<a href="node13.html#sec:subscribe">5.1</a>), and can be changed later if the list supports
more than one language.  

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To change your preferred language in Mailman,

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<li>Log in to your member options page.  (See Section&nbsp;<a href="node9.html#sec:web">3.1</a> for 
   instructions on how to do this.)
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<li>Go to the section marked "What language do you prefer?" and choose
	the appropriate language from the drop-down list.  If there is no
	drop-down list of languages, the list you are on probably only supports
	one language.  
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If your list does not support the language you would prefer to use, you may
contact the list administrator (LISTNAME-owner@DOMAIN) to see if it can be 
added, but remember that this may mean some work that the list and/or site 
administrator(s) do not have time or the ability to do.  

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If your language of choice is not available because no translation
exists for Mailman, please consider volunteering your time as a translator.
For more information you may want to consult the mailman-i18n mailing 
list at <a class="url" href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-i18n">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-i18n</a>.
(i18n is a common short-hand for "internationalization" because the word starts 
with an i, ends with an n, and has 18 letters in between.  If you mumble a bit,
i18n even sounds a bit like "internationalization.")

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