Hello Michael, thank you for response. I will talk to him. I hope we can do something about it. Sincerely, Martin. On 8/24/09, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
