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2.3 The Language Options Category</a>
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Mailman is multilingual and internationalized, meaning you can set up
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your list so that members can interact with it in any of a number of
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natural languages. Of course, Mailman won't translate list
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However, if your site administrator has enabled its support, you can
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set your list up to support any of about two dozen languages, such as
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German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish. Your list members can then
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choose any of your supported languages as their <em>preferred
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language</em> for interacting with the list. Such things as their member
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options page will be displayed in this language. Each mailing list
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also has its own <em>preferred language</em> which is the language the
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list supports if no other language context is known.
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These variables control the language settings for your mailing list:
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<dt><strong>preferred_language</strong></dt>
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<dd>This is the list's preferred language, which is the language that
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the list administrative pages will be displayed in. Also any
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language. This option is presented as a drop-down list containing
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the language enabled in the <code>available_languages</code> variable.
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<dt><strong>available_languages</strong></dt>
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<dd>This set of checkboxes contains all the natural languages that
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your site administrator has made available to your mailing lists.
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Select any language that you'd either like your members to be able
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to view the list in, or that you'd like to be able to use in your
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list's <code>preferred_language</code> variable.
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<dt><strong>encode_ascii_prefixes</strong></dt>
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<dd>If your mailing list's preferred language uses a non-ASCII
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character set and the <code>subject_prefix</code> contains non-ASCII
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characters, the prefix will always be encoded according to the
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relevant standards. However, if your subject prefix contains only
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ASCII characters, you may want to set this option to <em>Never</em>
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to disable prefix encoding. This can make the subject headers
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slightly more readable for users with mail readers that don't
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properly handle non-ASCII encodings.
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unencoded subject headers, you might want to choose <em>As
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needed</em>. Using this setting, Mailman will not encode ASCII
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prefixes when the rest of the header contains only ASCII
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characters, but if the original header contains non-ASCII
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