Re: Manual page translations

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Brent Smith wrote:
> http://www.gnome.org/~bmsmith/yelp/yelp-utf8.png
>
> I have no idea if any of that is garbled, but it seems to process OK. 
> This is Clytie's translation of java.1 in Japanese.
>
> BTW, this post illustrates my gripes:
>
> http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2005-07/msg00009.html
>
> I like Andries follow up suggestion to include a something in the 
> /usr/man/.../<locale>/ directory indicating the encoding of all man 
> pages found in subdirectories thereof.  This way at least I would be 
> able to call iconv() to translate the encodings to UTF-8.  The problem 
> with that solution is then where do we put utf-8 man pages?

I love replying to myself:

here's the patch if anyone is interested in testing it out (applied 
against HEAD)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343275

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Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>
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