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-As mentioned above, there are two primary administrative roles for
-mailing lists. In this category you can specify the password for
-these roles.
+Mailman is multilingual and internationalized, meaning you can set up
+your list so that members can interact with it in any of a number of
+natural languages. Of course, Mailman won't translate list
+postings. :)
+
+<P>
+However, if your site administrator has enabled its support, you can
+set your list up to support any of about two dozen languages, such as
+German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish. Your list members can then
+choose any of your supported languages as their <em>preferred
+language</em> for interacting with the list. Such things as their member
+options page will be displayed in this language. Each mailing list
+also has its own <em>preferred language</em> which is the language the
+list supports if no other language context is known.
+
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+These variables control the language settings for your mailing list:
+
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+<DL>
+<DT><STRONG>preferred_language</STRONG></DT>
+<DD>This is the list's preferred language, which is the language that
+ the list administrative pages will be displayed in. Also any
+ messages sent to the list owners by Mailman will be sent in this
+ language. This option is presented as a drop-down list containing
+ the language enabled in the <code>available_languages</code> variable.
+
+<P>
+</DD>
+<DT><STRONG>available_languages</STRONG></DT>
+<DD>This set of checkboxes contains all the natural languages that
+ your site administrator has made available to your mailing lists.
+ Select any language that you'd either like your members to be able
+ to view the list in, or that you'd like to be able to use in your
+ list's <code>preferred_language</code> variable.
<P>
-The list owner has total control over the configuration of their
-mailing list (within some bounds as specified by the site
-administrator). Note that on this page, for historical reasons, the
-list owner role is described here as the <i>list administrator</i>.
-You can set the list owner's password by entering it in the password
-field on the left. You must type it twice for confirmation. Note
-that if you forget this password, the only way for you to get back
-into your list's administrative pages is to ask the site administrator
-to reset it for you (there's no password reminders for list owners).
+</DD>
+<DT><STRONG>encode_ascii_prefixes</STRONG></DT>
+<DD>If your mailing list's preferred language uses a non-ASCII
+ character set and the <code>subject_prefix</code> contains non-ASCII
+ characters, the prefix will always be encoded according to the
+ relevant standards. However, if your subject prefix contains only
+ ASCII characters, you may want to set this option to <em>Never</em>
+ to disable prefix encoding. This can make the subject headers
+ slightly more readable for users with mail readers that don't
+ properly handle non-ASCII encodings.
<P>
-If you want to delegate list moderation to someone else, you can enter
-a different moderator password in the field on the right (typed twice
-for confirmation). Note that if you aren't going to delegate
-moderation, and the same people are going to both configure the list
-and moderate postings to the list, don't enter anything into the
-moderator password fields. If you do enter a separate moderator
-password, be sure to fill in the <code>moderator</code> variable in the
-<i>General options</i> category page.
+Note however, that if your mailing list receives both encoded and
+ unencoded subject headers, you might want to choose <em>As
+ needed</em>. Using this setting, Mailman will not encode ASCII
+ prefixes when the rest of the header contains only ASCII
+ characters, but if the original header contains non-ASCII
+ characters, it will encode the prefix. This avoids an ambiguity
+ in the standards which could cause some mail readers to display
+ extra, or missing spaces between the prefix and the original
+ header.
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