From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 25 4: 7:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (stampede.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03C714E66 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 04:07:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca41-214.ix.netcom.com [209.111.208.214]) by stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA05604; Tue, 25 May 1999 04:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.6.9) id EAA67875; Tue, 25 May 1999 04:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 04:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905251105.EAA67875@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: silvia.hip.berkeley.edu: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: horikawa@jp.freebsd.org Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, horikawa@jp.freebsd.org, nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, ru-freebsd-doc@freebsd.ru, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk In-reply-to: <19990517160148W.horikawa@ebina.hitachi.co.jp> (message from Kazuo Horikawa on Mon, 17 May 1999 16:01:48 +0900 (JST)) Subject: Re: Replace man/ja with man/ja_JP.EUC (FDP Directory Reorganization) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) References: <19990516183643.A15766@nagual.pp.ru> <19990517160148W.horikawa@ebina.hitachi.co.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Kazuo Horikawa Sorry, should have replied to this sooner. * I understand that we need not have more than one subdirectory under * man/ to store Japanese online manuals. * * I think that replacing /usr/share/man/ja with /usr/share/man/ja_JP.EUC * could be done easily (by modification of doc/ja/man/Makefile.inc and * src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist). But, replacing /usr/local/man/ja with * /usr/local/man/ja_JP.EUC may not be easy, because this replace forces * ports' maintainers to rewrite manpage destinations (all pkg/PLIST * which contains man/ja should be modified). Mr. Asami, is this change * acceptable for ports team? I'm still not convinced why this is necessary in the first place. The transition from "ja_JP.EUC" to "ja" was a very painful one for the ports committers and our users. Is it really worth it? * If man/ja is replaced with man/ja_JP.EUC, new FreeBSD's man command * can find ja_JP.EUC manuals under man/ja_JP.EUC. But it cannot show * Japanese online manuals, because FreeBSD's groff command and more * command cannot handle Japanese text now. This replace do not have * merit now, so I personally think that we do not have to replace man/ja * with man/ja_JP.EUC now. I read that we can't use ".EUC" for the chinese version anyway since there are more than one EUC's over there. Does this string (".EUC" or whatever) actually mean anything, or is it there just to satisfy someone's sense of coherency? Do we ever plan to support ja_JP.jisx0208 and ja_JP.jisx0201 and others as well as ja_JP.EUC? Which man page are the commands going to display if the user sets LANG to "ja"? Why can't we just make a symlink from "ja_JP.EUC" to "ja"? I don't pretend to understand all the issues but this just looks like a change for the sake of the change. (Especially since you people started from ja_JP.EUC to begin with. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message