[PATCH xrandr 1/3] po4a: handle translated xrandr(1) manpage #37612

[Matt Dew]

Very nice. As I haven't done anything with po4a I can't add much but I'm 
looking forward to seeing these patches pulled in.  I hope other distros 
and languages follow suit.   Do you use pootle?  If so, is it useful, 
something worth looking into ... ?
It seems useful, but again, I haven't done anything with it.

I didn't see anything in LSB (linux standard base) regarding different 
language manpages so your approach sounds good to me.


marcoz


On 05/29/2011 03:52 PM, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On 2011/5/29 Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 23:56 +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> [...]
>>> That is true, gettext calls in po4a source code are only there to
>>> display translated messages during po4a processing.
>>
>> Ah! You mean that po4a, like any well behaved mutlti language tool, will
>> emit messages to user while it runs during the build process. The
>> messages are fetched using gettext calls.
>
> Exactly.
>
>>>    The processing itself does not invoke gettext nor any external tool
>>> (for the nroff backend, other backends may require external tools),
>>> only perl is required.
>>
>> Unlike building C code which contains source code calling gettext, building
>> man pages using po4a does not require the gettext build  infrastructure.
>> Can I hazard a guess and claim that installing xrandr module on a system
>> that does not have gettext, I would be able to read the French man page?
>
> Right, but let me clarify.  With po4a, one can generate translated
> manual pages.  Those are plain nroff formatted manual pages, which can
> be displayed by the manual pager.  Usually translated manual pages are
> installed into a separate file hierarchy; the manual pager first looks
> for pages in a directory depending on user's locale, and if not found
> in English ones.
> The manual pager does not call gettext, it prints manual pages as it reads it.
>
> Unfortunately there is no standardized location for translated manual
> pages.  IMHO the simplest solution is to install xrandr.1 for language
> xx into $MANDIR/xx/man1/xrandr.1, and distro packagers will take care
> of installing translated manual pages at the right place in their
> system.
>
> Denis
> _______________________________________________
> xorg-devel at lists.x.org: X.Org development
> Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel
> Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel