2.3 The Language Options Category

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+2.3 The Language Options Category +

+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. :) + +

+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 preferred +language 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 preferred language which is the language the +list supports if no other language context is known. + +

+These variables control the language settings for your mailing list: + +

preferred_language: 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 available_languages variable. + +
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available_languages: 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 preferred_language variable. + +
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encode_ascii_prefixes: If your mailing list's preferred language uses a non-ASCII + character set and the subject_prefix 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 Never + 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. + +
+Note however, that if your mailing list receives both encoded and + unencoded subject headers, you might want to choose As + needed. 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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