Re: manpage for application with standard Native Language Support (NLS)
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:50:03 -0700 Osamu Aoki debian@aokiconsulting.com> wrote:
> $ man 7 locale
> $ info libc
> Just name few :)
Useful if you are a C programmer. I found a lot of
information about NLS, but I was looking for a reference (preferably a manpage) that explains to a *user* what
they need to do to use standard libc gettext based NLS
services. Solaris has it, shouldn't Debian also?
- Jason
> > I'm trying to write a man page for a package that does not currently have one
> > (skipstone - a Gtk+ web browser). SkipStone has some Native Language Support,
> > implemented using libc. I want to indicate this in the man page, somehow.
> > Looking at the Lynx manpage (man lynx), I see a nice desciption of NLS.
> > I could just copy/paste this. In fact thats what I'm going to do for now.
> > However, does every app that provides fairly standard NLS facilities have to
> > have the same text repeated? This is not desirable in my opinion.
> >
> > Looking at the Solaris system I work with, most man-pages in section 1 reference
> > 'environ(5)'. 'man -s 5 environ' has a reasonable description of Solaris Native
> > Language Support.
> >
> > On Debian 'man 7 environ' has a brief mention of the NLS environment variables,
> > then references 'locale(5)'. 'man 5 locale' has some information, but it doesn't
> > really say how environment variables determine the language used in an
> > application - it's more of a detailed description of the locale file. 'man 7 locale'
> > is better, but written for a C developer. I hunted around several manpages, looking
> > for something to reference, in the same way that Solaris does, but could not find
> > anything suitable.
> >
> > So question is :-
> >
> > Is there a man page I can reference in an application man page to indicate
> > libc-provided Native Language Support?
> >
> > If not, what do I file the bug report against?
> >
> > From my point of view, the Solaris approach (generic description of NLS referenced by
> > application manpages) would be the way to go. Note that I don't really know enough
> > about NLS support to write anything reliable about it myself.
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