Description of problem: If Mailman has a list that's language is set to finnish, it fails to archive the messages on that list with python traceback. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a mailing list. 2. Switch on finnish language and archiving. 3. Send a message to the list and run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch <list> Actual results: Jun 12 17:47:40 2009 (19662) SHUNTING: 1196259196.5090239+bd10bea939da93223841a599d3ee702ea96d6e61 Jun 12 17:48:06 2009 (19662) Uncaught runner exception: unsupported format character '�' (0xffffffe4) at index 16 Jun 12 17:48:06 2009 (19662) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose mlist.ArchiveMail(msg) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216, in ArchiveMail h.close() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 313, in close self.write_TOC() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1053, in write_TOC toc.write(self.html_TOC()) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 740, in html_TOC accum.append(self.html_TOC_entry(a)) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 763, in html_TOC_entry templ = '<td><A href="%(url)s">[ ' + _('Gzip\'d Text%(sz)s') \ File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 89, in _ return tns % dict ValueError: unsupported format character '�' (0xffffffe4) at index 16 More annyoing sidefeature is that messages wont get delivered always and get 'SHUNNED' to /var/spool/mailman/shunt and must be manually delivered with unshunt command. Expected results: Messages not being shunted and archives working. Additional info: Known issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266122 #mailman@freenode: [15:25] <Piet> i use a more recent version and haven't seen this bug in two years
4.9 is the last regular update of RHEL4 and it should be minimal. Closing this bug, as this works correctly in RHEL5.