[KS] How to read Hangeul on Mac

[Frank Hoffmann]

Michael, please ignore the private message I sent you before 
(suggestions there might not help).

>Could someone please tell me how I can view Hangeul in KS Digest on 
>a Mac (0S10.5). In Mac Mail or Gmail they always come out as 
>question marks ???? no matter whether I use Korean encoding  EUC, 
>ISO or DOS or any other encoding that I have tried.

Here an explanation, but not a solution. If you do not have this ??? 
problem, save yourself the time to read on :)

Since I never used "digest mode" I did not see that problem but found 
the following posting from spring 2010:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-March/069050.html

The person replying there is one of the main developers for Mailman.
Not sure if the suggested technical fix in there would solve the 
problem you describe. But please also see what Mr. Sapiro says there 
about the side effects. I fear that fixing this one problem will 
cause other, possibly more severe problems. If that were not the 
case, then the "Mailman" listserv software that was released a few 
months after that reply by Sapiro, which we use, would have already 
implemented such a fix. So, it seems to be a known bug without a fix.

No alternatives right now, other than (a) changing to standard 
subscription mode, (b) reading messages at the "Archives" 
(http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/), or in (c) 
FORUM style (http://koreaweb.ws/ksl/).

I should add that--and I just recently checked exactly 
this--"Mailman" seems still to be the top choice for academic mailing 
lists like this one. There certainly are other solutions for other 
needs (e.g. for commercial product info systems, customer relations 
lists, etc.) but all of those do have other problems when it comes to 
the needs we have (I did check that out two three months ago, exactly 
because of various problems with Mailman that the developers never 
fixed).

It seems that version 3 of Mailman will provide a fix of the problem:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Mailman+3.0
Look under the header "Internationalization."

Basically it means that because of "historic" reasons--Mailman has 
been around for maybe 20 years--there are still lots of non-Unicode 
parts in the various scripting parts within Mailman. Those seem to 
sometimes create problems with Unicode. In any newly developed script 
that would have been written from scratch, that would certainly not 
be the case.

If anyone should be aware of a better solution that Mailman, send me 
(or the list owners) a private message.


Best,
Frank

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Frank Hoffmann
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