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Your list administrator can enable various languages for their use when interacting with Mailman. (For a complete listing of the languages see <a class="url" href="http://www.list.org/i18n.html">http://www.list.org/i18n.html</a>.) If your list has other languages enabled, you may be able to have the web interface, etc. in a language of your choice. <P> <span class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b> This does NOT necessarily mean that all the posts sent to the list will be in the language you selected. Only the pre-prepared texts presented by Mailman will be affected by this setting. Posts are in whatever language the poster uses.</span> <P> Your preferred language is set when you subscribe (see Section<A HREF="node13.html#sec:subscribe">5.1</A>), and can be changed later if the list supports more than one language. <P> To change your preferred language in Mailman, <OL> <LI>Log in to your member options page. (See Section <A HREF="node9.html#sec:web">3.1</A> for instructions on how to do this.) </LI> <LI>Go to the section marked ``What language do you prefer?'' and choose the appropriate language from the drop-down list. If there is no drop-down list of languages, the list you are on probably only supports one language. </LI> </OL> <P> If your list does not support the language you would prefer to use, you may contact the list administrator (LISTNAME-owner@DOMAIN) to see if it can be added, but remember that this may mean some work that the list and/or site administrator(s) do not have time or the ability to do. <P> If your language of choice is not available because no translation exists for Mailman, please consider volunteering your time as a translator. For more information you may want to consult the mailman-i18n mailing list at <a class="url" href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-i18n">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-i18n</a>. 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