[debian-devel:10783] Re: man-db locale support

[Taketoshi Sano <xlj06203@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fabrizio! Thank you for your information.

In <19991026142143.A2979@none>,
 at Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:21:44 +0300,
   Fabrizio Polacco <fab@xxxxxxxx> writes:

fab> OK, a quick grep in my archives of the fhs mailist show me this 5 years
fab> old message, which explains why FHS ...
fab> 
fab> On Wed, Mar 09, 1994, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
fab> > [...] I have been recently communicating with a
fab> > developer involved with the JE project (Japanese Extensions to Linux)
fab> > about FSSTND and part of our discussion has concerned the subject of
fab> > manual pages (as follows).
fab> >
fab> > Manabe Takashi <manabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
fab> >
fab> > % I moved all Japanese manual pages to /*/man/ja_JP.ujis/ at latest
fab> > % version up. I can not change all at once. I'm trying to replace
fab> > % Japanese input systems which contain a lot of binaries, system
fab> > % dictionaries, and user dictionaries (these dictionaries will grow)
fab> > [...]
fab> >
fab> > And:
fab> >
fab> > % ja_JP.ujis is used to distinguish locale.  There are three code sets
fab> > % in Japan; JIS, UJIS(or EUC-J) and SJIS. We set ja_JP.jis, ja_JP.ujis,
fab> > % ja_JP.sjis to LANG env.  The Linux C library is not support locale
fab> > % ja_JP (Yes, I know that we must work.), but some Japanese environments
fab> > % (Canna, Wnn, Xsi version of XFree86) use LANG to distinguish a code
fab> > % set. I modified man-1.1 to support Japanese man pages. This modified
fab> > % man see LANG, then search a man page source files in
fab> > % /*/man/`getenv("LANG")`/man?/ before /*/man/man?/.  If found, call
fab> > % Japanized nroff (Japanized cawf)
fab> 
fab> As you can see, if you have good reasons, you can get to change the FHS,
fab> as the original reasons may not be any more valid ( hacked support from
fab> an obsoleted version of man, problems with locale in an obsoleted
fab> version of libc).

I know Manabe. (He is also a member of XFree86,,,)

I will talk to him about this, and then will feed the result to i18n list,
and after that, I wish to consult you again about proposal to FHS. Can I ?

Thank you for your kindness :)

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  Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx>