FS#4664 - Be more specific when naming man locales

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Stas Myasnikov (myst) - Saturday, 20 May 2006, 08:32 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 18:01 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Just one example. man pages in /usr/man/ru is in UFT-8 encoding, so the dir should be ru_RU.UTF-8, because when I set LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R I have trash on the screen when trying to read man page which has an russian version of it.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 18:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 14 April 2007, 12:33 GMT
doesn't setting LESSCHARSET help?
Comment by Yann (Pharaonpso) - Friday, 16 November 2007, 00:37 GMT
If you edit LESSCHARSET in /etc/profile to utf-8, you can read the ones who have russian version, but without removing "-Tlatin1" from the NROFF and NEQN lines in /etc/man.conf you won't be able to read the man pages who are still in english. I don't know if it's the good way to do it, but it works for me. You'll probably need to source /etc/profile for changes to take effect.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 19:42 GMT
@Pharaonpso: status with man-1.6f-2 and groff-1.19.2-4 (in Testing yet)?
about the original bugreport - I think that doesn't solve the issue. See post_install message in man-pages-ru
Comment by HardShooter (hard_shooter) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 17:31 GMT
This bug disappoint because he affect a lot the visibility of a man page
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 17:44 GMT
@hard_shooter: Can you try the packages in testing (man, groff, filesystem, bash) to see if this fixes things?
Comment by HardShooter (hard_shooter) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 17:48 GMT
I've all repository enabled (testing included) so I think these packages are updated
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 17:52 GMT
Is this related to  FS#7477 ?
Comment by HardShooter (hard_shooter) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 17:56 GMT
man pages aren't translated anymore with packages in testing (but I haven't installed man-pages-fr
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 18:00 GMT
The proposed solution just disables Russian man pages (which are in UTF-8) completely on a system with ru_RU.KOI8-R locale.
Doing what man-pages-ru post_install says works with both UTF-8 and KOI8-R locale.
See  FS#7477  and  FS#9130  for more info about man and UTF-8.

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