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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Patrick von der Hagen wrote:

> one of my listowners would like to customize the welcome-message, but wants 
> to have a subject of more than 40 characters. Well, should not be a real 
> problem... however, the text-entry-area wraps at 80 characters.
> Some are  lost to the "Subject: "-String, some are lost to TT2-statements, so 
> in fact my listowner currently hits a 20 character limit. :-(
> [...]
> If I tried to increase the linewrap-limit, would I hit any problems I'm 
> currently unaware of?
>  
For some strange reason the editfile.tt2 template had the wrap attribute 
set to "hard" which forces line breaks.
I've restored it to "physical" : 
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/sympa/web_tt2/editfile.tt2?r1=1.6&r2=1.7

> By the way, did I mention the encoding issues I currently see when german characters 
> like äöüß result from localization and are not part of the template themselves? For 
> example the german translation of "[%|loc%]Everything about this 
> list:[%END%]" is broken. Can any other german sympa-user confirm that problem? Not 
> sure wheter my locales could
> be a problem here....
>  
We have noticed some encoding problems ; we're investigating...