From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 08:45:43 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 E1AB916A468; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:45:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.allbsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:2f0:104:e002::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D7F13C4B3; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:45:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from delta.allbsd.org (p4054-ipbf904funabasi.chiba.ocn.ne.jp [122.26.39.54]) (authenticated bits=128) by mail.allbsd.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9U8jQiY017880; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:45:38 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (alph.allbsd.org [192.168.0.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by delta.allbsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l9U8ilrm012781; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:44:53 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:43:53 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20071030.174353.144068410.hrs@allbsd.org> To: ale@FreeBSD.org From: Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org> References: <20071027.003749.76175923.hrs@allbsd.org> <20071026175650.GA1074@gothic.blackend.org> <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org> X-PGPkey-fingerprint: BDB3 443F A5DD B3D0 A530 FFD7 4F2C D3D8 2793 CF2D X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="--Security_Multipart(Tue_Oct_30_17_43_53_2007_204)--" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.91.2, clamav-milter version 0.91.2 on gatekeeper.allbsd.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.allbsd.org [133.31.130.32]); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:45:42 +0900 (JST) Cc: ru@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, blackend@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: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:45:44 -0000 ----Security_Multipart(Tue_Oct_30_17_43_53_2007_204)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alex Dupre 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 ----Security_Multipart(Tue_Oct_30_17_43_53_2007_204)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHJu7JTyzT2CeTzy0RAnFbAJ92998LOp1Diiti92ohNYDFKDOH7QCfQXTc WAH10z8oPc1QtWDmBpd55Ys= =qApv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Tue_Oct_30_17_43_53_2007_204)----