Internationalization
Mailman 2.1 is fully internationalized. This means you can add
translations of all the email and web templates so that your users can
interact with your mailing lists in their native language.
Internationalization is handled as follows:
- Each Mailman installation has a server default language.
Mailman ships with US English as the server default.
- Mailman comes with many supported languages, and if your
language is on that list, it will just work.
- Individual list owners can choose which languages they'd
like their mailing list to support from the suite of site-enabled
languages. The list owner can also select the list's default
language. Mailing lists can thus be monolingual (with English or
any other installed language as the default), or they can be
multilingual.
- Individual users can choose what their preferred language
is, from the set of list-enabled languages. Thus, if a list is
multilingual, the user can choose which language they'd prefer
when interacting with Mailman.
It must be noted that Mailman never actually translates the messages
that flow through its mailing lists. It's up to the list members to
adhere to their community's language conventions.
Mailman Language Champions
Each language translation has a champion who coordinates updates and
submits them to the Mailman project. If the language you are
interested is listed here, please contact the champion for details.
If your language is not listed here, or if you have general questions
about I18N Mailman, please contact the
mailman-i18n@python.org mailing list.
We are investigating using the
Translation
Project for future language support.
| Language | Locale | Champion | Status/Notes |
|---|
| Basque/Euskara | eu |
Mailman Basque
translation project web page, and
translation team email
address |
Supported |
| Catalan | ca |
Robert Garrigos |
Supported |
| Chinese | (various) |
Orphaned
| The Chinese support is quite out of date and not currently supported
by anyone. Volunteers wanted! |
| Croatian | hr |
Nino Katic |
Supported |
| Czech | cs |
Dan Ohnesorg with
assistance from V. Stanovsky. |
Supported |
| Danish | da |
Soren Bondrup |
Supported |
| Dutch | nl |
Danny Terweij |
Supported |
| Esperanto | eo |
Marcio Malacarne and
Sergey Tyrin |
Not yet submitted |
| Estonian | et |
Anti Veeranna |
Supported |
| Finnish | fi |
Pekka Haavisto |
Supported |
| French | fr |
Pascal GEORGE,
Ousmane Wilane |
Supported. French translation team mailing list hosted by
Fil at
http://listes.rezo.net/mailman/listinfo/mailman-fr |
| German | de |
Peer Heinlein.
(See also) |
Supported |
| Hungarian | hu |
Vizi Szilard, Szabolcs
Szigeti,
Gabor Funk |
Supported |
| Icelandic | is |
Ólafur Garðarsson |
Not yet submitted |
| Italian | it |
Simone Piunno |
Supported. Italian translation team mailing list at
http://liste.ferrara.linux.it/listinfo/mailman-it/ or email
to mailman-it@liste.ferrara.linux.it |
| Japanese | ja |
Tokio Kikuchi |
Supported. See also the
Japanized Mailman Page
and also the mailing list for Japanese Mailman users, for which
the archives
are publically available. |
| Korean | ko |
song at yaimma.co.kr |
Supported |
| Lithuanian | lt |
Mantas Kriauciunas |
Supported |
| Norwegian | no |
Daniel Buchmann |
Supported. See also the
Norwegian Mailman Page. |
| Polish | pl |
Bartosz Sawicki,
Pawel Kolodziejczyk,
Marcin Sochacki,
Marcin Zaborowski |
Supported |
| Portuguese | pt, pt_BR |
Gleydson
Mazioli da Silva,
João Sá Marta,
Rubens Queiroz de
Almeida,
Aleck Zander,
Jose Roberto Kerne
Jose Paulo Moitinho
de Almeida |
Supported |
| Romanian | ro |
Stefaniu Criste |
Supported |
| Russian | ru |
Mikhail Sobolev |
Supported. See also the
Russian Mailman list |
| Serbian | sr |
Bojan Suzic |
Supported |
| Solvenian | sl |
Uros Kositer |
Supported |
| Spanish | es |
Juan Carlos Rey Anaya |
Supported |
| Swedish | sv |
Tomas Fasth and
Anders Norrbring |
Supported |
| Turkish | tr |
Kerem Erkan,
Erdinc Guler |
Supported |
| Ukrainian | uk |
Maxim Dzumanenko |
Supported |
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