Last modified: 2014-01-03 16:12:29 UTC
$ curl -Is "https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiuk-l" | grep Content-Type Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 $ curl -Is "https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo" | grep Content-Type Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii --- As you can see, the index at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo> specifies a charset of us-ascii. This is wrong. It should be specifying utf-8. This bug is related to bug 37817 ("lists.wikimedia.org encoding issues in description").
per suggestion of thehelpfulone: in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py line 300 there is "charset =". we changed that from us-ascii to utf-8 and deleted the matching .pyc bytecode file too.. but this does not appear to fix it.
so..i would say "upstream bug"... #mailman channel agrees: kjetilho> yeah, UTF-8 would be the sensible default in just about any distro
ok, so i found Defaults.py which sets a charset per language, like: add_language('en', _('English (USA)'), 'us-ascii', 'ltr') changing that to add_language('en', _('English (USA)'), 'utf-8', 'ltr') actually makes the listinfo overview page utf-8. ..but..the list descriptions of non-English lists will still appear broken, because they are not utf-8.. it depends on the language.. and languages and descriptions can bet set by list admins...
No plans to investigate further on the WM site, candidate for upstreaming.
Looks good now? $ curl -Is "https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo" | grep Content-Type Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Yep, this seems to be fixed. Thanks for marking this as such, Nemo. Bug 37817 remains unresolved, I believe.
