From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 18:11:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0058B16A41B; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4137313C4AC; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l9QHupTq069130; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:56:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9QHup7c001773; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:56:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9QHuoSD001772; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:56:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:56:50 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Hiroki Sato Message-ID: <20071026175650.GA1074@gothic.blackend.org> References: <4721FFC5.9070505@FreeBSD.org> <20071027.003749.76175923.hrs@allbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071027.003749.76175923.hrs@allbsd.org> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, gabor@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: localized man pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:11:37 -0000 --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:37:49AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Gabor Kovesdan wrote > in <4721FFC5.9070505@FreeBSD.org>: >=20 > ga> I have a volunteer, who is going to send me Hungarian man page > ga> translations. I've noticed that Japanese people have some old transla= ted > ga> man pages in the doc repository, but I'd rather commit the pages into > ga> src so that we can have the appropriate versions for our branches in = the > ga> future. I like the idea of making some progress about a more wide > ga> language support by translating the manpages to Hungrian, so please g= ive > ga> me an idea how I can do it in the src repo, where should they go. > ga> (Ruslan, our mdoc guru is CC'd.) >=20 > Before adding non-English manual page, we need i18n support of man, > nroff, and pager at least. Japanese old manual pages depend on > Japanized tools such as japanese/man and japanese/groff (and not > actively maintained these days...). It makes putting them into the > src tree difficult. > This is the reason why I stopped to add things to doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/man, i.e, problematic toolchain. > Since groff's i18n support is still poor, I personally think we > should adopt UTF-8-capable toolchain if possible. I have surveyed > such tools some time ago and found textproc/heirloom-doctools would > be a promising one. It is from OpenSolaris (i.e. CDDL'd) and > supports UTF-8 output. I am not sure compatibility of roff macro > between the groff and the heirloom-doctools, though. >=20 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. --=20 Marc --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHIiphzQ9RwE+OdOgRAlU6AJ9vnq0dnSwhZqrpmgr4uL2qf5NoqwCdFTgB GaHJNwOTP8vztgoi6B2GfYY= =/n+5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--