I think this digest problem is particular to launchpad only. I receive daily-digests from Pootle without any trouble viewing the Tamil content present. So, the list owners could consider filing an issue with Launchpad folks.
-e. 2009/2/17 கா. சேது | K. Sethu <skh...@gmail.com>: > 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.html > with 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 ) 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 > > > > -- > Ubuntu-l10n-tam mailing list > Ubuntu-l10n-tam@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam > > -- Ubuntu-l10n-tam mailing list Ubuntu-l10n-tam@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam
