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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.

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 Supported http://www.foss.org.sa (coming soon)
Basque/Euskara eu mailto:mailman@librezale.org Supported Mailman Basque Translation Project webpage
Bulgarian bg
Alexander Shopov
Not yet submitted Public preview will be available here
Catalan ca Robert Garrigos Supported
Chinese zh_CN Leona Supported Coordination Page
Chinese 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 Jan Veuger Supported http://www.janveuger.com/mailman
Esperanto eo Marcio Malacarne
and Sergey Tyrin
Not yet submitted
Estonian et Anti Veeranna Supported
Finnish fi Piekka Haavisto Supported
French fr Pascal George
and Ousmane Wilane
Supported French Translation Team mailing list
hosted by Fil
German de Peer Heinlein Supported Mailman de
Greek el Maria Avgoulea Not yet submitted
Hungarian hu Vizi Szilard, Szabolcs Szigeti, Gabor Funk, Szabolcs Szigeti 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
or email mailto:mailman-it@liste.ferrara.linux.it
Japanese ja Tokio Kikuchi Supported Japanized Mailman Page,
Japanese Mailman-users mailing list,
and its public archives
Korean ko mailto:song@yaimma.co.kr Supported
Lithuanian lt Mantas Kriauciunas Supported
Norwegian no Daniel Buchmann Supported 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 mailto:queiroz@ccuec.unicamp.br,
Aleck Zander mailto:aleck@unesp.br,Jose Roberto Kerne,Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
Supported
Romanian ro Stefaniu Criste Supported
Russian ru Mikhail Sobolev Supported 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
Vietnamese vi Clytie Siddall Newly-supported Dự án Việt hoá

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