Hello Martin, On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Martin Ošmera<martin.osmera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello there. > At first I'd like to mention that I really appreciate your work, but > from my point of view there is a significant flaw. May I ask you why > do you use ISO-8859-2 instead of UTF-8. This makes no sense at all. > For instance I have practically never seen any Czech man page with > czech specific characters correctly displayed. It always looks like > this: " > JMÃNO > passwd - seznam hesel uživatelů > > POPIS > Passwd je Äitelný textový soubor, který obsahuje > seznam úÄtů systému, obsahujÃcà pro každý úÄet užiteÄné > informace jako ID uživatele, ID skupiny, domovský adresáÅ, > shell apod. Äasto také obsahuje zaÅ¡ifrovaná hesla > úÄtů. MÄl by být Äitelný pro vÅ¡echny (mnoho utilit, jako > ls(1) jej použÃvajà k namapovánà ID uživatele na jméno > uživatele), ale zapisovatelný jen pro superuživatele. > " > Of course it can be easily changed by iconv. Do you plan to change > character encoding in some future version ? I have no up-to-date info about the Czech translations.My suspicion is that they are unmaintained. It could be that Pavel (CCed), who has sometimes contributed to the English version, and has mentioned the Czech version to me a coupleof times (IIRC) knows more. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Watch my Linux system programming book progress to publication! http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
