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+2.3 The Language Options Category</a>
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+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.
+
+<p>
+These variables control the language settings for your mailing list:
+
+<p>
+<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>
+</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>
+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
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