Archives for mailing lists created with mailman are created with iso-8859 charset instead of utf-8. As the messages are encoded in utf-8, some of the characters are displayed wrongly. This happens with mailman-2.1.9-10.fc9.i386 The template files in /usr/lib/mailman/templates are encoded in ISO-8859 instead of in utf-8
hello Sergio, first, check your HTTP server configuration, if it doesn't impose default charset and does not override the "charset=" specifier in http response see bottom of this page: http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node10.html if this doesn't help, try adding DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'utf-8' into mm_cfg.py and then regenerate the archive using bin/arch --wipe
Hello David, thanks for the help. the information in mailman-install didi the trick. Correct me if I'm wrong, buf it seems that http serves pages as utf-8 by default and mailman creates pages as iso-8859-1. So if we want a mailman install working out of the box, we have to add AddDefaultCharset Off to mailman.conf or change DEFAULT_CHARSET to utf8 in mailman to create utf8 pages.
OK, adding "AddDefaultCharset Off" to httpd-mailman.conf fixed in mailman-2.1.12-2.fc11
Shouldn't DEFAULT_CHARSET be changed to utf8 instead of or in addition to this?