On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:17:42PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: > > On 12/31/2013 06:58 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Looking at the BLFS Shadow package instructions, there is a command > >> and descriptive text for disabling the Korean and Chinese man pages. > >> However, this is not done in LFS. Seems the two books would be > >> consistent as far as which man pages are installed. > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> > > > > I believe that LFS had some note for man-db that it couldn't properly > > display man pages in some languages, but that was fixed some time ago. > > I'm not sure how to check. I tried: > > $ LANG=ko man chfn > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > > but it did display the English page. We do have the ko, zh_CN, and > zh_TW pages installed. I also see that nmap installs a zh page. > > -- Bruce >
From some quick tests (in urxvt on a 'buntu "desktop" on my netbook, using ssh to get to my 7.4 server) I can display the shadow pages I tried for the ja_JP, ko_KR, zh_CN, zh_TW locales : but only if I specify LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 : omitting the .UTF-8 gave me gibberish. This also requires the locales, of course, and suitable fonts. Arguably, LFS is out of date - but very few LFS users seem to care about CJK text. There is, of course, no way to display CJK in a regular tty (far too many potential glyphs). But from any desktop term which is correctly set up and has a suitable font you can display them using the form 'man /usr/share/man/ja/man1/su.1' and the same if you replace 'ja' by 'ko', 'zh_CN' or 'zh_TW'. Unfortunately, many of the other pages are not present in all four of these CJK locales. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
