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Internationalization
Mailman 2.1 is fully internationalized. This means you can add
translations of all the email and web templates so that your users can
interact with your mailing lists in their native language.
Internationalization is handled as follows:
- Each Mailman installation has a server default language.
Mailman ships with US English as the server default.
- Mailman comes with many supported languages, and if your
language is on that list, it will just work.
- Once Mailman 2.1 is officially released, we plan to make
available language packs which include updated language
support, or new languages.
- If you'd like to volunteer to help with translations, or have
questions about the support for your language of choice,
please contact the mailman-i18n@python.org
mailing list.
- Individual list owners can choose which languages they'd like
their mailing list to support from the suite of site-enabled
language packs. The list owner can also select the list's default
language. Mailing lists can thus be monolingual (with English or
any other installed language as the default), or they can be
multilingual.
- Individual users can choose what their preferred language is,
from the set of list-enabled languages. Thus, if a list is
multilingual, the user can choose which language they'd prefer
when interacting with Mailman.
It must be noted that Mailman never actually translates the messages
that flow through its mailing lists. It's up to the list members to
adhere to their community's language conventions.
Mailman Internationalization Resources
The following resources are available for those wishing to use
internationalized versions of Mailman.
- Catalan
- Jordi Mallach is heading
up the Catalan translation effort.
- Chinese Simplified (GB), and Big5
- Max Yu heads up
the Simplified Chinese translation effort. Michael Fang
contributed a Big5 mailman.po file, but I've had some trouble
converting it to a .mo file with msgfmt. Assistance would be
greatly appreciated!
- Czech
- Dan Ohnesorg heads up
the Czech translation effort, which has been assisted by
V. Stanovsky.
- Dutch
- Danny Terweij and
Sander Steffann head up
the Dutch translation.
- Estonian
- Anti Veeranna heads up the
Estonian translation effort.
- Finnish
- Pekka Haavisto
heads up the Finnish translation effort.
- French
- Ousmane Wilane heads up the
French translation effort, with a mailing list hosted by
Fil at
http://listes.rezo.net/mailman/listinfo/mailman-fr.
- German
- Peer Heinlein is
now the German translation champion.
- Hungarian
- Vizi Szilard
heads up the Hungarian translation effort, with
some help from Szabolcs Szigeti and
Gabor Funk.
- Italian
- Simone Piunno is
heading up the Italian translations, with help from many others.
Simone has created an Italian mailing list for those wishing to
help: http://mailman.ferrara.linux.it/listinfo/mailman-it/
- Japanese
- Tokio Kikuchi maintains the
Japanized Mailman Page
and also runs a mailing list for Japanese Mailman users, for which
the archives
are publically available.
- Korean
- song@yaimma.co.kr has
volunteered to head up the Korean translation effort.
- Norwegian
- Daniel Buchmann
heads up the Norwegian translation effort. See also his
Norwegian Mailman Page.
- Polish
- Contrary to what you might think knowing my last name, I don't
know a word of Polish. :) Fortunately,
Pawel
Kolodziejczyk, Marcin
Sochacki, and
Marcin Zaborowski
have volunteered to spearhead the Polish
translations.
- Portuguese
- The following folks are working on the Portuguese
translations:
They are working on both the Brazilian (pt_BR) and Portuguese (pt_PT)
translations.
- Russian
- Mikhail Sobolev
has volunteered to head up the Russian translation effort. There
is also a Russian
Mailman list for discussion of the Russian translation.
- Spanish
- Juan Carlos Rey Anaya heads
up the Spanish translations.
- Swedish
- Eva Österlind
heads up the Swedish translation effort, with help from our
Norwegian champion
Daniel Buchmann.
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