From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 16 7:37:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from deep-thought.demos.su (deep-thought.demos.su [194.87.1.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0711509F; Sun, 16 May 1999 07:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@deep-thought.demos.su) Received: (from ache@localhost) by deep-thought.demos.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA15825; Sun, 16 May 1999 18:36:44 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:36:44 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: horikawa@jp.freebsd.org Cc: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, ru-freebsd-doc@freebsd.ru, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RU-DOC] FDP Directory Reorganization Message-ID: <19990516183643.A15766@nagual.pp.ru> References: <19990515180910.A1012@nagual.pp.ru> <19990516181607K.k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990516181607K.k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp>; from horikawa@jp.freebsd.org on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 06:16:07PM +0900 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 06:16:07PM +0900, horikawa@jp.freebsd.org wrote: > So, if we type `LANG=ja_JP.SJIS jman ls' (*1): What you describe is a hack based on indirect assumtions and autoconversions in ja-* programs family. All indirect assumptions must be direct. > If we must have Japanese manpages in both man/ja_JP.EUC and > man/ja_JP.SJIS instead of single directory man/ja, we will have both > man/ja_JP.EUC/ls.1.gz and man/ja_JP.SJIS/ls.1.gz. It doubles disk > usage to support both locales. I know that some commercial OS have I not suggest to have two directories, you can still have one directory but with suffix which indicate encoding of stored files instead of indirect assumtion for them. Autoconversion programs must be fixed to handle such simple case. In current situation there is no way to determine encoding of stored files from outside since encoding tag not presend in the file bodies, so EUC encoding must be hardcoded into all programs. What happens if we switch to UTF-8? -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message