From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 11 02:05:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90871BF6 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4462D135A for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s1B250kT023734 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:05:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) with ESMTP id s1B24xld023724; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:04:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:04:59 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Polytropon Subject: Re: freebsd 9.2 In-Reply-To: <20140211012316.496fadf4.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <52F90149.6020507@orange.fr> <20140211012316.496fadf4.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:05:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: Eric Rapilly , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:05:07 -0000 On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Polytropon wrote: > However, some things will still be in English. A good > example are the manpages. Even though the Handbook and > many other resources have been translated, the manpages > have not. The idea behind this choice seems to be: Those > who will read the manpages will understand English, and > those who don't understand English probably won't want > to look at manpages anyway. :-) There probably is not any policy on this. Certainly it would be nice to have translations of the man pages, and the major roadblock is a lack of translators. In turn, that's because it's a difficult job. There are Japanese translations by an outside project, but I don't know offhand where they are. We (some of the doc team) have been looking for tools to make the translation process easier using modern tools. A quick search just now found textproc/po4a, which supports mdoc and other formats. If anyone is interested in using these or other tools to translate man pages or any of the rest of the FreeBSD documentation, please post to the freebsd-doc mailing list.