Added switch to disable the l10n cset recoding.

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Mailman/Defaults.py.in b/Mailman/Defaults.py.in
index 06b3e0ad..04d7db8a 100755
--- a/Mailman/Defaults.py.in
+++ b/Mailman/Defaults.py.in
@@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ ACCEPTABLE_LISTNAME_CHARACTERS = '[-+_.=a-z0-9]'
 # in list rosters?  Defaults to No to preserve prior behavior.
 ROSTER_DISPLAY_REALNAME = No
 
+# Beginning in Mailman 2.1.21, localized help and some other output from
+# Mailman's bin/ commands is converted to the character set of the user's
+# workstation (LC_CTYPE) if different from the character set of the language.
+# This is not well tested over a wide range of locales, so if it causes
+# problems, it can be disabled by setting the following to Yes.
+DISABLE_COMMAND_LOCALE_CSET = No
+
 
 
 #####
diff --git a/Mailman/i18n.py b/Mailman/i18n.py
index 102bee83..b8b527e0 100644
--- a/Mailman/i18n.py
+++ b/Mailman/i18n.py
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ def _get_ctype_charset():
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, old)
     return charset
 
-_ctype_charset = _get_ctype_charset()
+if not mm_cfg.DISABLE_COMMAND_LOCALE_CSET:
+    _ctype_charset = _get_ctype_charset()
 
 
 
@@ -114,8 +115,12 @@ def tolocale(s):
         return s
     return unicode(s, source, 'replace').encode(_ctype_charset, 'replace')
 
-def C_(s):
-    return tolocale(_(s, 2))
+if mm_cfg.DISABLE_COMMAND_LOCALE_CSET:
+    C_ = _
+else:
+    def C_(s):
+        return tolocale(_(s, 2))
+
     
 
 def ctime(date):
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c7092b8b..1047b272 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
     - Also thanks to Miloslav Trmac and Yasuhito FUTATSUKI, the l10n for
       Mailman's bin/ commands has been fixed to display using the character
       set of the user's work station even when Mailman's character set for
-      the language is different.  (LP: #558167)
+      the language is different.  Because this has not been tested over a
+      wide set of locales, there is an mm_cfg.py switch
+      DISABLE_COMMAND_LOCALE_CSET to disable it if it causes problems.
+      (LP: #558167)
 
     - The Polish translation has been updated by Stefan Plewako.