Re: Manual page translations

[Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org>]

У сре, 24. 05 2006. у 13:19 +0300, Yavor Doganov пише:
> At Tue, 23 May 2006 17:05:02 +0930,
> Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > 
> > Bruno Haible has released a groff-utf8 patch, and is currently  
> > working on a full groff release which will support UTF-8.
> 
> Until this release comes out and propagates to most GNU distributions
> and free *BSD, it is harmful to submit translations of manpages in
> UTF-8, as every user must patch his installed version in order to view
> them.

It can't be harmful for languages such as Vietnamese since it requires
UTF-8 and Unicode support for proper display.  If you don't have it,
there is no much use in even trying to look at the translated manpages.

Cheers,
Danilo