The non-english manpages are broken, all the non-ascii characters get
stripped when you view them. These should either be fixed or disabled.
Check output in e.g. "man -m /usr/local/man/es scrotwm".
You probably want to build them with nroff for now, as was done with
the (commented-out) Russian manpage. Use -c on the nroff command line
to avoid the nasty ESC sequences for coloured output which mess up
the display in less(1).
mandoc will warn you about manpage problems if you build with
'make WARNINGS=yes' (or add WARNINGS=yes to mk.conf). I would suggest
that porters set this, it gives a good early indication when manpages
need further investigation.
Hi,
Note that mandoc(1) actually can render Unicode escapes (\u[N]) with
-Tutf8 or -Tlocale (assuming you have a UTF-8 shell and the appropriate
LC stuff set):
% cat >foo.1 <<!
.TH FOO 1
.SH NAME
\[u041F]\[u0440]\[u0438]\[u0432]\[u0435]\[u0442]!
!
% mandoc -Tlocale foo.1
However, scrotwm's manuals would need to be preprocessed to convert
UTF-8 (or whatever) into the Unicode escape form. There's an upstream
utility to do just that, <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/preconv.1.html>. groff
has a similarly-named utility. mandoc's isn't in OpenBSD, however.
In theory the functionality can be pulled directly into mandoc, but I
haven't do so to avoid bloat. Plus, to date, nobody has complained to
me about mandoc's locale stuff, so it's not a priority to me.
Best,
Kristaps
