Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:46:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Miklos Magyari <magyari@freemail.hu> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ru@FreeBSD.org, Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: localized man pages Message-ID: <freemail.20070927114622.34848@fm14.freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: <47226158.4070304@FreeBSD.org>
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hi, > we must be able to do this with our groff 1.19.2, too. I'm not sure how > to adjust man(1) to do it automatically, though. Miklos, the guy, who > volunteered to do some translation work on the manpages also claimed > that he could see the translated manpages properly by using latin1 encoding > instead of ascii. I've took a quick look in man's source. There is a static struct called ltable at line 99 of /usr/src/gnu/usr/bin/man/man/man.c I've added a new entry: "ISO8859-2", "latin1" to prevent using ascii for rendering man pages when this codepage is set. With this change compiled & installed, man renders Hungarian man pages put under /usr/share/man/hu.ISO8859-2 like a charm, all special characters (both lower and upper case) are shown correctly (assuming hu_HU.ISO8859-2 locale is set). This is because latin1 is used and the output is not filtered through 'col'. Of course I don't know if this small change breaks anything, but at least it makes Hungarian man pages working. cheers, mami
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