Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:01:29PM +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > Can you please point me to debian packages installing manpages in these > > formats (and directories)? > I believe I just cannot. :) No man pages that are in Russian come into > ru_RU.KOI8-R directory... All of them are install into ru. The same > problem is with the Russian message catalogs: all of them are installed into > /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES instead of > /usr/share/locale/ru_RU.KOI8-R/LC_MESSAGES.
Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, once said he would enhance gettext so that gettext() convert the codes on the fly. This is possible because there is an encoding information in the catalog files: $ LANG=ru_RU gettext tar "" Project-Id-Version: tar 1.13.7 POT-Creation-Date: 1999-08-23 03:56-0700 PO-Revision-Date: 1999-08-23 09:31+08:00 Last-Translator: Const Kaplinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Language-Team: Russian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit $ -- Changwoo Ryu
