On March 27, 2026 4:15:00 AM GMT+09:00, MegaBrutal wrote:
OK, well, would be convenient to use my native language, but many templates have no translation. This is an empty file: ... As a matter of fact, most of my templates are empty! ... I don't see why it's packaged like this – I know that translations don't come easy. I picked up the maintenance of the SMF forum engine's translations, and it's brutal how many hours it took to get it to a decent state. However, Mailman could use English as a fallback for missing translations; getting the notifications in English is still better than getting empty messages which is confusing.
Translations are done on weblate <https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnu-mailman/mailman/>. We would welcome your contribution.
A non-existent template will fall back to English, but an empty template will not.
That said, the issue is related to how the templates are handled by weblate. Instead of having a msgid of the English template content with a msgstr of the translation, the msgid is just the template name, and the POT contains that msgid and an empty msgstr which results in an empty template rather than a missing template.
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