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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:41:47 +0100
From:      Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ru@FreeBSD.org, Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org, gabor@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: localized man pages
Message-ID:  <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071026175650.GA1074@gothic.blackend.org>
References:  <4721FFC5.9070505@FreeBSD.org>	<20071027.003749.76175923.hrs@allbsd.org> <20071026175650.GA1074@gothic.blackend.org>

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Marc Fonvieille ha scritto:
> What Linux people use on their various distributions?  Last time I
> checked (well, it was in 99...) most of Linux distributions provided
> localized manual pages.

IMHO the main problem with localized man pages is that they are *always* 
out of date and incomplete. man pages tend to change often and localized 
version lag behind. Users perception is that the documentation is poor 
and they switch to english man pages (in the best case).

-- 
Alex Dupre



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