On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:06:13PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > -=| Jens Seidel, 28.08.2007 23:42 |=- > > Grml ... I failed to view the manpage translation and think Bulgarian is > > currently not supported :-( > > I have similar fears. > > > Any idea? My advice is to read the source via vim $(man -w -L bg hex-a-hop) > > :-) > > Nice tip :) > > Funny, but I have no experience with Bulgarian man pages :) > I guess they need to be encoded in something other than utf-8. I checked > the German man page and it seems to be in Latin1. Russian on the other > hand is in koi8-r. The "standard" 8-bit encoding for Bulgarian is CP1251 > and this is listed in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED but re-coding the man > page in that gives no useful results - the text is interpreted as latin1 > (garbled). > > I hope I'll find some time to play with man and see how it does it for > Russian and what can be done to add Bulgarian support.
Please compare with http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440420. Colin seems to have support for Bulgarian (in a development snapshot?). Don't worry about your work. It will be used later and currently it's an excellent test code (the only one in Debian :-)) for man-db. PS: Doesn't Bulgarian have a 7 (or 8) bit transliteration? Would it be possible to rewrite ѝ with i or i`, ...? Just contact Colin for more details (I did not file a bug as promised as Colin has it already partly working). I will move the Bulgarian and Vietnamese manpages into *.UTF-8/ with the next upload. Jens