On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Martin Ošmera<martin.osmera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Michael, > thank you for response. I will talk to him. I hope we can do something about it. Just to be clear: I don't mean to suggest that Pavel is the maintainer. But he may know more about whi maintains the pages, and what their state is. Cheers, Michael > 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/ >> > -- 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
