localized man pages

[Hiroki Sato]

Alex Dupre <ale at FreeBSD.org> wrote
  in <47259CCB.2070303 at FreeBSD.org>:

al> Marc Fonvieille ha scritto:
al> > What Linux people use on their various distributions?  Last time I
al> > checked (well, it was in 99...) most of Linux distributions provided
al> > localized manual pages.
al>
al> IMHO the main problem with localized man pages is that they are *always*
al> out of date and incomplete. man pages tend to change often and localized
al> version lag behind. Users perception is that the documentation is poor
al> and they switch to english man pages (in the best case).

 Right.  I think it is no problem with adding localized manual pages
 but before that it needs toolchain which supports various languages
 in a consistent way as well as some framework for informing that
 "this is out-of-date" to the users in some way.  Displaying old
 translation via man(1) is not bad if such warning is displayed
 together.

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| Hiroki SATO
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