That is sufficient. Thank you for prompt reply. By the way may I ask you what do think about this book: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ ? Since you are writing something similar, aren't you ? Cheers, Martin. On 8/24/09, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
