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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. Individual list owners can choose which languages they'd like their mailing list to support from the suite of site-enabled languages. 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 Language Champions Each language translation has a champion who coordinates updates and submits them to the Mailman project. If the language you are interested is listed here, please contact the champion for details. If your language is not listed here, or if you have general questions about I18N Mailman, please contact the mailman-i18n@python.org mailing list. We are investigating using the Translation Project for future language support.
Language | Locale | Champion | Status/Notes
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Basque/Euskara | eu | Mailman Basque translation project web page, and translation team email address | Supported
Catalan | ca | Robert Garrigos | Supported
Chinese | zh_CN | Coordinated at this page by champion Leona. | Supported
zh_TW | Ping Yeh | Supported
Croatian | hr | Nino Katic | Supported
Czech | cs | Dan Ohnesorg with assistance from V. Stanovsky. | Supported
Danish | da | Tom G. Christensen | Supported
Dutch | nl | Danny Terweij | Supported
Esperanto | eo | Marcio Malacarne and Sergey Tyrin | Not yet submitted
Estonian | et | Anti Veeranna | Supported
Finnish | fi | Pekka Haavisto | Supported
French | fr | Pascal GEORGE, Ousmane Wilane | Supported. French translation team mailing list hosted by Fil at http://listes.rezo.net/mailman/listinfo/mailman-fr
German | de | Peer Heinlein. (See also) | Supported
Greek | el | Maria Avgoulea | Not yet submitted
Hungarian | hu | Vizi Szilard, Szabolcs Szigeti, Gabor Funk | Supported
Icelandic | is | Ólafur Garðarsson | Not yet submitted
Interlingua | ia | Alberto Mardegan, Thomas Breinstrup, Emerson José Silveira da Costa | Supported
Italian | it | Simone Piunno | Supported. Italian translation team mailing list at http://liste.ferrara.linux.it/listinfo/mailman-it/ or email to mailman-it@liste.ferrara.linux.it
Japanese | ja | Tokio Kikuchi | Supported. See also the Japanized Mailman Page and also the mailing list for Japanese Mailman users, for which the archives are publically available.
Korean | ko | song at yaimma.co.kr | Supported
Lithuanian | lt | Mantas Kriauciunas | Supported
Norwegian | no | Daniel Buchmann | Supported. See also the Norwegian Mailman Page.
Polish | pl | Bartosz Sawicki, Pawel Kolodziejczyk, Marcin Sochacki, Marcin Zaborowski | Supported
Portuguese | pt, pt_BR | Gleydson Mazioli da Silva, Rubens Queiroz de Almeida, Aleck Zander, Jose Roberto Kerne Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida | Supported
Romanian | ro | Stefaniu Criste | Supported
Russian | ru | Mikhail Sobolev | Supported. See also the Russian Mailman list
Serbian | sr | Bojan Suzic | Supported
Slovenian | sl | Uros Kositer | Supported
Spanish | es | Juan Carlos Rey Anaya | Supported
Swedish | sv | Tomas Fasth and Anders Norrbring | Supported
Turkish | tr | Kerem Erkan, Erdinc Guler | Supported
Ukrainian | uk | Maxim Dzumanenko | Supported