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| author | Zack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-06 16:22:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Zack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-06 16:22:04 +0000 |
| commit | b32e80330973383d4eca995d6193e35a743176cd (patch) | |
| tree | c657760bd2b5c756d0371c908425ecc5835e90ca /chapter06/man.xml | |
| parent | 4dc8dc63eef4a0b4e70ffa3ff12d8678a6a81e92 (diff) | |
Committed Alexander's i18n patch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3489 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml index a1cf37193..58667a2ca 100644 --- a/chapter06/man.xml +++ b/chapter06/man.xml @@ -73,6 +73,35 @@ configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem> <filename>man.conf</filename> file and add the <emphasis>-c</emphasis> switch to NROFF.</para></note> +<para>If your character set uses 8-bit characters, search for the line +beginning with "NROFF" in /etc/man.conf, and verify that it coincides +with the following:</para> + +<screen>NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc</screen> + +<para>Note that you should use "latin1" even if it is not the character set +of your locale. The reason is that, +according to the specification, <application>groff</application> has +no means of typesetting characters outside ISO-8859-1 +without some strange escape codes, and localized manual +pages are therefore really a hack. When formatting manual pages, +<application>groff</application> thinks that they are in the ISO-8859-1 +encoding and this <emphasis>-Tlatin1</emphasis> switch tells +<application>groff</application> to use the same encoding for output. +Since <application>groff</application> does no recoding of input characters, +the formatted result is really in the same encoding as input (although +<application>groff</application> doesn't know that it is not ISO-8859-1) +and therefore it is usable as the input for a pager.</para> + +<para>Of course, this hack does not solve the problem of non-working +<command>man2dvi</command> program for localized manual +pages in non-ISO-8859-1 locales. +Also, it does not work at all with multibyte character sets. +The first problem does not have a solution currently. The second +one is not of a concern because the LFS installation does not support +multibyte character sets properly anyway. You may want to look at +internationalization related hints, though.</para> + <para>You may want to also take a look at the BLFS page at <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/cvs/postlfs/compressdoc.html"/> which deals with formatting and compression issues for man pages.</para> |