Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:43:53 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: ale@FreeBSD.org Cc: ru@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, blackend@FreeBSD.org, gabor@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: localized man pages Message-ID: <20071030.174353.144068410.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org> References: <20071027.003749.76175923.hrs@allbsd.org> <20071026175650.GA1074@gothic.blackend.org> <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org> wrote in <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org>: al> Marc Fonvieille ha scritto: al> > What Linux people use on their various distributions? Last time I al> > checked (well, it was in 99...) most of Linux distributions provided al> > localized manual pages. al> al> IMHO the main problem with localized man pages is that they are *always* al> out of date and incomplete. man pages tend to change often and localized al> version lag behind. Users perception is that the documentation is poor al> and they switch to english man pages (in the best case). Right. I think it is no problem with adding localized manual pages but before that it needs toolchain which supports various languages in a consistent way as well as some framework for informing that "this is out-of-date" to the users in some way. Displaying old translation via man(1) is not bad if such warning is displayed together. -- | Hiroki SATO [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHJu7JTyzT2CeTzy0RAnFbAJ92998LOp1Diiti92ohNYDFKDOH7QCfQXTc WAH10z8oPc1QtWDmBpd55Ys= =qApv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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