Hello, I am using the mailman-installation (http://www.gnu.org/software/ mailman/) from my hosting company. I doesn't have access to the add_members script and so I am writing a python script which uses http requests to subscribe new members.
But if I am posting a new member with an name, which includes "German Umlaute" I see only weird characters in the admin-interface. The mailman webinterface doesn't use utf-8. It always uses the corresponding charset for the actual language setting. If I post "Bärbel Rüssel" the admin-interface shows me the following name: "Bärbel Rüssel" I am using the German language setting, so mailman uses the ISO-8559-1 charset in the webinterface. If I switch my browser to UTF-8 the name is correct in the admin-interface, but all other special characters are wrong. The strange thing for me is, that the name is correct if I subscribe the member in the admin-interface manually. I don't know what the different is between my python script and the manuell subscription. To Post to my mailman-server I use this recipe (http:// code.activestate.com/recipes/146306/) to generate the multipart/form-data POST I looked into the Mailman source code and found the Util.canonstr method. At the end it changes the string to an unicode string. So the name is stored as unicode, isn't it? But why is there a difference if I display the manuell inserted name and the automatic inserted name?? I used Tamper Data (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ 966) to catch the request when I inserted the data manually through the webinterface. The request generated with my script looks the same, but the output isn't? Does anyone have experience with this problem or with mailman and urllib/urllib2? ~ Bernd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
