> > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:01:29PM +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > Pardon? I did not quite catch. If I have a Russian man page, I do not > > need to > > read English version, do I? Well, if I have to read English version, I > > would > > issue `LANG= man command'. > > I mean, you know that translations are sistematically late ... so if you > issue man foo and foo page does not exist for your LANG, then you fall > back to english. Well, if look on the code of man program, we will see that for every directory (path) in MANPATH it adds path/lang *before* this path. So, from MANPATH=/usr/share/man, we'll get MANPATH=/usr/share/man/ru:/usr/share/man, which means that if we do not have a translated manual page the default one will be shown. The patch I sent you does the same, but for LANG=country_TERRITORY.ENCODING,VERSION, it adds all of them from the most specific to the least specific. So everything should continue to work. No?
> > As for groff, here we usually use latin1. I do not know whether it's nice > > or > > not: it just works. > > I should have misse dsomething, as they are competely different > charsets. maybe you mean that you just excenge fonts and that's all? What I mean is that if one specify -t latin1, one gets a decent result, nothing more. There is a problem with -t latin1, as the `╜' character appears as something unexpected. But to my knowledge, nobody hacked groff for supporting -t koi8-r (or anything similar). -- Mike
