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[Elanjelian Venugopal]

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 <skhome at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Abdul Haleem <ahaleemsl at 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-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>
>> Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM
>>
>> Subject: Ubuntu-l10n-tam post acknowledgement
>>
>> To: skhome at 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
>
>
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