Is my language supported in Mailman?
Mailman now supports a wide range of world languages, and we're always happy to add to the list. Below is information for list admins and translators, plus a table of available languages, and the Mailman Language Champions who are responsible for our translations.
Information for List Administrators
Mailman 2.1 is fully internationalized. This means you can add translations of the Mailman interface, and of all the email and web templates in Mailman, 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 currently ships with US English (ASCII) as the server default.
Mailman comes with many supported languages, and if your language is on that list, it will simply work out of the box.
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 to use while interacting with Mailman.
Note
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.
Information for Translators
Please read our Internationalization page, which includes our Translation Howto.
The table below simply summarizes the current state of Mailman's language support. You can participate in supporting a particular language, or add the translation for a new language. We welcome your contribution. Please read our Internationalization page for all the details on how you can contribute.
Mailman Language Champions
As this table shows, each supported language has a Champion who coordinates translation updates and submits them to the Mailman project. For all translator questions about Internationalization, please read that page; admins can read their i18n section (above); both translators and admins can post questions to our mailman-i18n mailing list. Feel free to create links from these languages to a language specific page, if you want to provide some information to non-English speakers.
| Language | ISO-639 | Champion | Status | See also |
| Arabic | ar | Munzir Taha <munzir NO AT HARVEST foss DOT org DOT sa> | Supported | http://www.foss.org.sa (coming soon) |
| Asturian | ast | Marcos Costales <marcoscostales NO AT HARVEST gmail DOT com> | Not yet submitted | |
| Azerbaijani | az | Emin Mastizada <emin NO AT HARVEST linux DOT com> | Not yet submitted | Launchpad Repository |
| Basque/Euskara | eu | Piarres Beobide <pi NO AT HARVEST beobide DOT net> | Supported | Mailman Basque Translation Project webpage |
| Bulgarian | bg | Alexander Shopov <ash NO AT HARVEST contact DOT bg> | Not yet submitted | Public preview will be available here |
| Catalan | ca | Jordi Mallach <jordi NO AT HARVEST sindominio DOT net> and David Planella <david DOT planella NO AT HARVEST gmail DOT com> | Supported | Catalan Mailman translation project |
| Chinese | zh_CN | Leona <leona NO AT HARVEST cs DOT hit DOT edu DOT cn> | Supported | Coordination Page |
| Chinese | zh_TW | Ping Yeh <ping NO AT HARVEST pingyeh DOT net> | Supported | |
| Croatian | hr | Nino Katic <nkatic NO AT HARVEST public DOT srce DOT hr> | Supported | |
| Czech | cs | Dan Ohnesorg <dan NO AT HARVEST ohnesorg DOT cz> with assistance from V. Stanovsky <stan NO AT HARVEST krnovsko DOT cz> |
Supported | |
| Danish | da | Tom G Christensen <mm-da NO AT HARVEST statsbiblioteket DOT dk> | Supported | |
| Dutch | nl | Jan Veuger <info NO AT HARVEST janveuger DOT com> | Supported | http://www.janveuger.com/mailman |
| English (British) | en_GB | Adam Bowen <adamb NO AT HARVEST agitate DOT org DOT uk> | Not yet submitted | |
| Esperanto | eo | Rubén Fernández Asensio <enseikou NO AT HARVEST gmail DOT com> | Partially supported (2.1.27) |
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| Estonian | et | Anti Veeranna <duke NO AT HARVEST linux DOT ee> | Supported | |
| Finnish | fi | Joni Töyrylä <info NO AT HARVEST jonitoyryla DOT eu> | Supported | |
| French | fr | Pascal George <george NO AT HARVEST lyon DOT inserm DOT fr> and Ousmane Wilane <wilane NO AT HARVEST yahoo DOT com> |
Supported | French Translation Team mailing list hosted by Fil <Fil NO AT HARVEST rezo DOT net> |
| Galician | gl | Frco. Javier Rial Rodríguez <fjrial NO AT HARVEST cesga DOT es> | Supported (2.1.10) |
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| German | de | Peer Heinlein <p DOT heinlein NO AT HARVEST jpberlin DOT de> | Supported | Mailman de |
| Greek | el | Antonis Limperis <limperis NO AT HARVEST cti DOT gr> | Not yet submitted | |
| Hebrew | he | Dov Zamir | Supported (2.1.10) |
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| Hungarian | hu | Vizi Szilard <vizisz NO AT HARVEST freemail DOT hu>, Szabolcs Szigeti, Gabor Funk <funk DOT gabor NO AT HARVEST hunetkft DOT hu> | Supported | |
| Icelandic | is | Ólafur Garðarsson <oli NO AT HARVEST edal DOT net> | Not yet submitted | |
| Ido | io | Loïc Landais <loic DOT landais NO AT HARVEST wanadoo DOT fr> | Not yet submitted | |
| Interlingua | ia | Alberto Mardegan <mardy NO AT HARVEST users DOT sourceforge DOT net>, Thomas Breinstrup, Emerson José Silveira da Costa <ensjo NO AT HARVEST interlingua DOT com> |
Supported | |
| Italian | it | Simone Piunno <pioppo NO AT HARVEST ferrara DOT linux DOT it> | Supported | Italian Translation Team mailing list or email mailman-it@liste.ferrara.linux.it <mailman-it NO AT HARVEST liste DOT ferrara DOT linux DOT it> |
| Japanese | ja | Tokio Kikuchi <tkikuchi NO AT HARVEST is DOT kochi-u DOT ac DOT jp> | Supported | Japanized Mailman Page, Japanese Mailman-users mailing list, and its public archives |
| Kannada | kn | H.P.Nadig <hpnadig NO AT HARVEST gmail DOT com> | Not yet submitted | translation@sampada.info <translation NO AT HARVEST sampada DOT info>, Kannada project |
| Korean | ko | Yongmin Hong <revi NO AT HARVEST fastlizard4 DOT org> | Supported | |
| Lithuanian | lt | Mantas Kriauciunas <mantas NO AT HARVEST akl DOT lt> | Supported | |
| Norwegian | no | Daniel Buchmann <Daniel DOT Buchmann NO AT HARVEST bibsys DOT no> | Supported | Norwegian Mailman page |
| Persian | fa | Mahyar Moghimi <mahyar DOT moqimi NO AT HARVEST gmail DOT com> and Javad Hoseini <javad2000 NO AT HARVEST gmail DOT com> | Supported (2.1.16) | |
| Polish | pl | Bartosz Sawicki <sawickib NO AT HARVEST iem DOT pw DOT edu DOT pl>, Pawel Kolodziejczyk <Pawel DOT Kolodziejczyk NO AT HARVEST comarch DOT pl>, Marcin Sochacki <wanted NO AT HARVEST mwd DOT pl>,Marcin Zaborowski <m DOT zaborowski NO AT HARVEST il DOT pw DOT edu DOT pl> | Supported | |
| Portuguese | pt pt_BR |
Gleydson Mazioli da Silva <gleydson DOT mazioli NO AT HARVEST ima DOT sp DOT gov DOT br>, Rubens Queiroz de Almeida <queiroz NO AT HARVEST ccuec DOT unicamp DOT br> Aleck Zander <aleck NO AT HARVEST unesp DOT br>,Jose Roberto Kerne <joseroberto NO AT HARVEST dicaslinux DOT com DOT br>,Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida <moitinho NO AT HARVEST civil DOT ist DOT utl DOT pt>, Emerson Ribeiro de Mello <emerson_ml NO AT HARVEST yahoo DOT com DOT br> |
Supported | |
| Romanian | ro | Stefaniu Criste <stefaniu DOT criste NO AT HARVEST hangarhosting DOT net> | Supported | |
| Russian | ru | Danil Smirnov <danil AT NO smirnov DOT HARVEST la> | Supported | Download translation |
| Serbian | sr | Bojan Suzic <bojan NO AT HARVEST trust-b DOT com> | Supported | |
| Slovak | sk | Martin Matuška | Supported (2.1.10) |
Download translation and patches |
| Slovenian | sl | Uros Kositer <urosh NO AT HARVEST agenda DOT si> | Supported | |
| Spanish | es | Juan Carlos Rey Anaya <jcrey NO AT HARVEST uma DOT es> | Supported | |
| Swedish | sv | Tomas Fasth <tomfa NO AT HARVEST debian DOT org> and Anders Norrbring <anders NO AT HARVEST norrbring DOT biz> |
Supported | |
| Tamil | tam | Sri Ramadoss M <amachu DOT techie NO AT HARVEST gmail DOT com> | Proposed | |
| Turkish | tr | Kerem Erkan <kerem DOT erkan NO AT HARVEST basari DOT com DOT tr>, Erdinc Guler <eguler NO AT HARVEST aegee DOT metu DOT edu DOT tr> | Supported | |
| Ukrainian | uk | Maxim Dzumanenko <mvd NO AT HARVEST mylinux DOT com DOT ua> | Supported | |
| Vietnamese | vi | Clytie Siddall <clytie NO AT HARVEST riverland DOT net DOT au> | Newly-supported | Dự án Việt hoá |
| Welsh | cy | Illtud Daniel <illtud DOT daniel NO AT HARVEST llgc DOT org DOT uk> | Not yet submitted |
If your details are not shown accurately in this table, please login and edit it, or send your changes to Mark <mark NO AT HARVEST msapiro DOT net>.