Title: Internationalization
Links: doco-links.h

<h3>Internationalization</h3>

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:

<ul>
    <li>Each Mailman installation has a server default language.
    Mailman ships with US English as the server default.

    <p><li>Mailman comes with many supported languages, and if your
    language is on that list, it will just work.

    <p><li>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.

    <p><li>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.
</ul>

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.

<h3>Mailman Language Champions</h3>

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
<a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-i18n"
>mailman-i18n@python.org</a> mailing list.

<p>We are investigating using the
<a href="http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/">Translation
Project</a> for future language support.

<dl>
    <p><dt><b>Catalan</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:jordi@debian.org">Jordi Mallach</a> is heading
    up the Catalan translation effort.

    <p><dt><b>Chinese</b> Simplified (GB), and Big5</dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:max.yu@turbolinux.com.cn">Max Yu</a> 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!

    <p><dt><b>Czech</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:dan@ohnesorg.cz">Dan Ohnesorg</a> heads up
    the Czech translation effort, which has been assisted by
    <a href="mailto:stan@krnovsko.cz">V. Stanovsky</a>.</dd>

    <p><dt><b>Dutch</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:danny@terweij.nl">Danny Terweij</a> and
    <a href="mailto:sander@steffann.nl">Sander Steffann</a> head up
    the Dutch translation.

    <p><dt><b>Estonian</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:duke@linux.ee">Anti Veeranna</a> heads up the
    Estonian translation effort.

    <p><dt><b>Finnish</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:pekka.haavisto@mtt.fi">Pekka Haavisto</a>
    heads up the Finnish translation effort.

    <p><dt><b>French</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:george@lyon.inserm.fr">Pascal GEORGE</a> and
    <a href="mailto:wilane@yahoo.com">Ousmane Wilane</a> head up the
    French translation effort, with a mailing list hosted by
    <a href="mailto:Fil@rezo.net">Fil</a> at
    <a href="http://listes.rezo.net/mailman/listinfo/mailman-fr"
    >http://listes.rezo.net/mailman/listinfo/mailman-fr</a>.

    <p><dt><b>German</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:p.heinlein@jpberlin.de">Peer Heinlein</a> is
    now the German translation champion.

    <p><dt><b>Hungarian</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:vizisz@freemail.hu">Vizi Szilard</a>
    heads up the Hungarian translation effort, with
    some help from Szabolcs Szigeti and
    <a href="mailto:Funk.Gabor@hunetkft.hu">Gabor Funk</a>.

    <p><dt><b>Italian</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:pioppo@ferrara.linux.it">Simone Piunno</a> is
    heading up the Italian translations, with help from many others.
    Simone has created an Italian mailing list for those wishing to
    help: <a href="http://mailman.ferrara.linux.it/listinfo/mailman-it/"
    >http://mailman.ferrara.linux.it/listinfo/mailman-it/</a>

    <p><dt><b>Japanese</b></dt>
    <dd>Tokio Kikuchi maintains the
    <a href="http://mm.tkikuchi.net/"><em>Japanized Mailman Page</em></a>
    and also runs a mailing list for Japanese Mailman users, for which
    the <a href="http://mm.tkikuchi.net/pipermail/mmjp-users/">archives</a>
    are publically available.

    <p><dt><b>Korean</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:song@yaimma.co.kr">song@yaimma.co.kr</a> has
    volunteered to head up the Korean translation effort.</dd>

    <p><dt><b>Lithuanian</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:mantas@akl.lt">Mantas Kriauciunas</a> has
    contributed a Lithuanian translation.

    <p><dt><b>Norwegian</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:Daniel.Buchmann@bibsys.no">Daniel Buchmann</a>
    heads up the Norwegian translation effort.  See also his
    <a href="http://www.bibsys.no/~db/MM21">Norwegian Mailman Page</a>.
    </dd>

    <p><dt><b>Polish</b></dt>
    <dd>Contrary to what you might think knowing my last name, I don't
    know a word of Polish. :)  Fortunately,
    <a href="mailto:Pawel.Kolodziejczyk@comarch.pl">Pawel
    Kolodziejczyk</a>, <a href="mailto:wanted@mwd.pl">Marcin
    Sochacki</a>, and
    <a href="mailto:m.zaborowski@il.pw.edu.pl">Marcin Zaborowski</a>
    have volunteered to spearhead the Polish
    translations.

    <p><dt><b>Portuguese</b></dt>
    <dd>The following folks are working on the Portuguese
    translations:
    <ul>
    <li><a href="mailto:gleydson.mazioli@ima.sp.gov.br">Gleydson
        Mazioli da Silva</a>
    <li><a href="mailto:samarta@ci.uc.pt">João Sá Marta</a>
    <li><a href="mailto:queiroz@ccuec.unicamp.br">Rubens Queiroz de
        Almeida</a>,
    <li><a href="mailto:aleck@unesp.br">Aleck Zander</a>
    <li><a href="mailto:joseroberto@dicaslinux.com.br">Jose Roberto Kerne</a>.
    </ul>
    They are working on both the Brazilian (pt_BR) and Portuguese (pt_PT)
    translations.

    <p><dt><b>Russian</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:mss@mawhrin.net">Mikhail Sobolev</a>
    has volunteered to head up the Russian translation effort.  There
    is also a <a href="mailto:mailman-ru@only.mawhrin.net">Russian
    Mailman list</a> for discussion of the Russian translation.

    <p><dt><b>Spanish</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:jcrey@uma.es">Juan Carlos Rey Anaya</a> heads
    up the Spanish translations.

    <p><dt><b>Swedish</b></dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:information@arvika.se">Eva &Ouml;sterlind</a>
    heads up the Swedish translation effort, with help from our
    Norwegian champion
    <a href="mailto:Daniel.Buchmann@bibsys.no">Daniel Buchmann</a>.

</dl>

