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Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> wrote
in <20071027065754.GA1015@gothic.blackend.org>:
bl> > Ubuntu Linux uses groff 1.18.1 and has some Hungarian manual pages. I
bl> > succeeded to render them correctly by using "nroff -Tutf8 manpage", so we
bl> > must be able to do this with our groff 1.19.2, too. I'm not sure how to
bl> > adjust man(1) to do it automatically, though. Miklos, the guy, who
bl> > volunteered to do some translation work on the manpages also claimed that
bl> > he could see the translated manpages properly by using latin1 encoding
bl> > instead of ascii.
bl> >
Hmm, I have not use the latest groff, so I will give it a try. If it
accepts UTF-8 and other encodings and there is no regression,
upgrading our stock groff would be good.
bl> I used to use:
bl> groff -man -mtty-char -Tlatin1 -dlang=fr.ISO8859-1 blahblah.1
bl> which is still working. Now I'm trying to recall why I really stopped
bl> committing translated manual pages. I remember I had a mail exchange
bl> with Ruslan about the manual page system especially the mechanism
bl> allowing the selection of the manual page to display according to the
bl> locale. I'm unable to find this mail, but I now think the problem was
bl> on this point: our manual page system does not easily allow this
bl> selection and the fall-back on the en_US version when the manual page is
bl> not translated. This should also work with ports manual pages.
The man(1) we are using partially support such selection by $LANG.
For example, if you have:
/usr/local/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/nkf.1.gz
/usr/local/man/man1/nkf.1.gz
and type "env LANG=ja_JP.eucJP man nkf" and "env LANG=C man nkf", you
will find the different results. However, selection of command line
option (such as -Tlatin1 and -Tutf8) by $LANG is not supported, IIRC.
Even if the latest groff supports non-ascii encodings, pager is still
a problem. Our stock less does not support so many encodings at
least (I often use misc/lv for non-English text files which less does
not support).
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| Hiroki SATO
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