Re: [Translation-i18n] manpage testing

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:23:56PM +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> My previous mail on this subject said that I had been unable to view  
> my translated manpage, which was placed in with all my other  
> manpages, with its English version removed.
You could try the -l flag "man -l foo.1.gz"

Capital L is for locale, which sets it hard for that invocation of man.
My man pages put the language directory of where the "standard" man1
directories are, eg
/usr/share/man/man1/login.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/login.1.gz
So
"man login" says "login - begin session on the system"
and
"man -L de login" says "login - startet eine Sitzung auf dem System"

> I've found that there must be a daily script of some kind which  
> updates the manpage data, because I tried it the same day I placed  
> the manpage in that directory, and man didn't find (sic) it. However,  
> I tried it again yesterday, and it definitely found my manpage.
On my system it is called mandb
mandb - create or update the manual page index caches

> It couldn't display the UTF-8 text correctly.
Is that the pager (eg less or more) fault?

>   $ groff-utf8 -Tutf8 -mandoc find.vi.1 | less
> 
> but:
> 
> /usr/bin/u8_utf8_soelim: line 14: find.vi.1: No such file or directory
To test you could just use the full path of the file, or -I flag for
groff (assuming groff-utf8 has the same flags as normal groff).

What is on line 14 of your file?

Do you have a manpath program?
csmall@gonzo:~$ manpath
/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man

 - Craig
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