[Mailman-Users] digests don't show unicode well

The example at the end is from a 'plain' format digest. The messages in
the plain format digest, while they still show the original
Content-Type: header, are all coerced to the character set of the
list's preferred language which is us-ascii for English and that is
probably what the list's language is since there is currently no Greek
language support.


In the MIME format digest, each message is a separate MIME part, and
the Content-Type: header from the original message is replicated in
the message part's headers, so this should not be an issue with MIME
digests.


It does. It knows the message is utf-8 encoded and it knows the plain
format digest is us-ascii so it does the best it can, which isn't very
good in this case.

The user's should try subscribing to the MIME digest and see if that
helps. If it does, set the list's default digest format to MIME for
new subscribers.

Other options include changing the character set for English in Mailman
to utf-8, or creating a Greek i18n for Mailman with an appropriate
character set and setting the list's language to Greek.

You can do the former by putting

add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'utf-8', 'ltr')

in mm_cfg.py, but this will have possibly undesirable side effects such
as base64 encoding the plain digest, parts of the MIME digest, and
most mailman generated notices from the list. It might be better to
use 'iso-8859-1', but that won't help much with Greek, but you
probably don't want iso-8859-7 because this is a global setting.

If you (or maybe some students) want to do a Greek i18n, I'll help with
the mechanical details.