On 6/3/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Salam Khaled, > > Am 2005-06-03 03:40:01, schrieb khaled ghetas: > > This my first message to the doc mailing list > > Welcome. > > > I'm a new member and want to participate in localizing GNU/Linux and > > helping it's spread among Arabs > > :-) > > > I think translating man pages is a good thing and it will provide good > > help fore Arabic users > > But , is it possible > > If possible how can we use it?I mean we use the command=20 > > man lilo (for example) > > ,in case of Arabic ,my be=20 > > man lilo.ar (or ar.lilo)? > > No, the manpage System does not work like this. > Manpages are in > > /usr/share/man/man1 > man2 > ... > man8 > > and the localized in > > /usr/share/man/ar/man1 > man2 > ... > man8 > > If you have setup for example your "export LANGUAGE=ar_MA.UTF-8" > correctly, you will get automaticly arabized manpages and if they > are not disponible, you will get the default english. > > IF your locale is another then "ar_??" then you can run man with > > LC_LANGUAGE=ar_MA.UTF-8 man <manpage> > > but you can make a little wraper script like > > __( '/home/michelle.konzack/bin/arman' )________ > / > | #!/bin/bash > | > | LC_LANGUAGE=ar_MA.UTF-8 man $@ > \________________________________________________ > Thanks for explanation What about starting a new project for translating man pages of basic Linux commands , file systems ,etc.
Khaled Hosny
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