localized man pages

[Gabor Kovesdan]

Miklos Magyari escribió:
> 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.
>
>   
I would prefer utf-8, since latin1 does not have our double accented u 
and o, just those ones with a tilde or with a circumflex accent. Latin2 
would be the best, but as we don't have that utf-8 should be used imho. 
I can't investigate right now, but as soon as I have some time I will do so.


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