On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Abdul Haleem <ahalee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Only the digest mode subscription having problems like that. > The same problem is seen in post acknowledgements send by the list. Today I enabled "Receive acknowledgement mail when you send mail to the list?" in the options page for my subscription. For the two messages I sent since then the acknowledgement notices came back with Tamil content in Subject field replaced with question marks. For example for my message https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-l10n-tam/2009-February/001724.htmlwith Subject: சோதனை மடல் (Testing) I got following acknowledgment: > > From: <ubuntu-l10n-tam-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com> > > Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM > > Subject: Ubuntu-l10n-tam post acknowledgement > > To: skh...@gmail.com > > > Your message entitled > > ????? ???? (Testing) > > was successfully received by the Ubuntu-l10n-tam mailing list. > > List info page: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam > [..] I found the reason for that problem as follows: Looking at the original I see following entries with regard to content transfer: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Although it says MIME it really encodes with 7 bit "us-ascii" and and so utf-8 contents get destroyed in transfer. On the other hand individual email postings which come with utf-8 content intact (i.e., Tamil content readable) show they are base 64 encoded (which is a MIME variety) with charset="utf-8". In case of Digest postings there is an option in the options page for your subscription (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/options/ubuntu-l10n-tam ) <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/options/ubuntu-l10n-tam>as follows: Get MIME or Plain Text Digests? > Your mail reader may or may not support MIME digests. In general MIME > digests are preferred, but if you have a problem reading them, select plain > text digests. > So those who want it in Digest mode (and don't want to switch to the problem free option of individual email postings) and having the reported problem , I request you to do the following: 1. Let this mail list know which of the two options you are having? 2. Change the option to from what you have to the other and then send a test mail to the list including Tamil content to the list and wait for the next digest (does it come once every 24 hrs?) and see that solves the problem. If any of the moderators know for sure from past that either of the two options do not solve the problem, please do inform the same so that others need not bother to test (For sure I will be testing this with a subscription I made earlier today with another email id but I am still awaiting the moderator approval for that subscription) If the problem is not solvable immediately I would suggest to the Digest receivers to consider changing to individual emails like, (I guess) the majority of us do. Other option is not to have email postings but read and respond from web interface of the list. ~Sethu
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