localized man pages

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 29 22:42:36 UTC 2007


Alex Dupre escribió:
> Marc Fonvieille ha scritto:
>> What Linux people use on their various distributions?  Last time I
>> checked (well, it was in 99...) most of Linux distributions provided
>> localized manual pages.
>
> IMHO the main problem with localized man pages is that they are 
> *always* out of date and incomplete. man pages tend to change often 
> and localized version lag behind. Users perception is that the 
> documentation is poor and they switch to english man pages (in the 
> best case).
>
Well, I think it might apply to all kind of docs. As I see, the Spanish, 
Russian, Japanese and Italian documentation set is also pretty outdated. 
Not speaking about those who don't even have the webpage translated. 
Some Linux distributions succeeded with keeping them up-to-date, so I'm 
more optimistic about this and I'm willing to help maintining them with 
Miklos, our new contributor. This is a just an opportunity, users can 
always return to use English ones if they are unsatisfied with the 
quality of the translated documents.

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