[Pkg-shadow-devel] Should NAME be translated in localized man pages?

Denis Barbier barbier at linuxfr.org
Sat Dec 17 14:23:26 UTC 2005


On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:21:31PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
[...]
> Here is an extract from the lexgrog.l file:
> ===========================================================================
>  /* Please add to this list if you know how. */
> cs_name         J[Mm][ÉéEe][Nn][Oo]
> de_name         B[Ee][Zz][Ee][Ii][Cc][Hh][Nn][Uu][Nn][Gg]
> en_name         N[Aa][Mm][Ee]
> es_name         N[Oo][Mm][Bb][Rr][Ee]
> fi_name         N[Ii][Mm][Ii]
> fr_name         N[Oo][Mm]
> hu_name         N[ÉéEe][Vv]
>  /* NOME also works for gl, pt */
> it_name         N[Oo][Mm][Ee]
> ja_name         \314\276\301\260
> latin_name      N[Oo][Mm][Ee][Nn]
> nl_name         N[Aa][Aa][Mm]
> pl_name         N[Aa][Zz][Ww][Aa]
> sv_name         N[Aa][Mm][Nn]
> name            ({cs_name}|{de_name}|{en_name}|{es_name}|{fi_name}|{fr_name}|{hu_name}|{it_name}|{ja_name}|{latin_name}|{nl_name}|{pl_name}|{sv_name})
> name_sec        {dbl_quote}?{style_change}?{name}{style_change}?({blank}*{dbl_quote})?
> ===========================================================================
> 
> It would be nice if translators who don't have her language here could
> file a bug (e.g. ru: #338991)

But text encoding should be the one defined in the directory_table array
in src/encodings.c, which is KOI8-R for ru.  Pages will be recoded to
UTF-8 automatically if user has a ru_RU.UTF-8 locale.

Denis



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