Language Support In Templates
Hello MM3 Users,
I have a question regarding the use of templates in different languages. I created a template for the unsubscribe notification in Postorius in Greek. The template shows up fine in Greek via Postorius. However the email that is sent out has a bunch of question marks where the Greek should be:
???? ???, ????? ????? ? ??????????? GNU Mailman ???? ????? $.
$user_email?????? ?? GNU Mailman ?????? ?? ?????????? ??? ??????? ???, ?????? ????? ?? ????????????? ?? ?????? ???. ???????? ?? ?? ?????? ????? ?????????? ?? ???? ?? ??????.
? ?? ?????? ?? ????????????? ??? ???????? ?????? - ??? ???? ?? ???????? line - ?? ??? ?????? ???? ?? $ request_email:
confirm $token????????? ??? ? ???? ???????? "?????????" ?? ???? ?? ?????? ?????? ?? ?????????? ?? ???????????? ?????????? ?????????????.
??? ??? ?????? ?? ??????????? ??? ????? ?? ????????? ???????????? ????????????, ????? ???????? ??? ??????. ??? ????????? ??? ??????????? ????????? ??? ?? ?????, ? ????? ????? ?????????, ???????? ?? ?????????????? $owner_email
What does it take to get templates to send out messages in a different language then the interface itself.
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On 1/25/21 12:18 PM, Brian Carpenter wrote:
Hello MM3 Users,
I have a question regarding the use of templates in different languages. I created a template for the unsubscribe notification in Postorius in Greek. The template shows up fine in Greek via Postorius. However the email that is sent out has a bunch of question marks where the Greek should be:
This is a bug in Postorius. I just reported it at <https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/465>.
There are a couple of workarounds.
Assuming the list's preferred language is Greek (el), You can put the template in Mailman's var/templates/lists/<list-id>/el/ directory (creating it if necessary and ensuring it's readable by the Mailman user.
You can set
[language.master]
charset: utf-8
in mailman.cfg to change the default character set from ascii to utf-8
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
This is a bug in Postorius. I just reported it at https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/465.
I have deleted that bug report as it appears the language attribute in the postorius_emailtemplate table is unused anyway. Notices built from templates are sent by core in the appropriate charset, that of the list's preferred language for admin notices and the either the user's or the list's preferred language for user notices. (Un)sibscribe confirmations are sent in the list's preferred language.
In Brian's case the (default) charset for Greek is UTF-8, so if the template was encoded as UTF-8 and the list's preferred language was Greek, it should not have been garbled.
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