Re: i18n of man-db improved; please test

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian@tmail.plala.or.jp>]

Hi,

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Subject: i18n of man-db improved; please test
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:08:52 +0100

> I've uploaded man-db 2.4.2-1 to unstable, which includes many i18n
> fixes.

A nice work!  I tested it in ja_JP.eucJP and ja_JP.UTF-8 locales and
it worked well.  Screenshots are available:
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/man-db-EUC-JP.png
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/man-db-UTF-8.png

I used a locally improved version of "lv" as a viewer to
take these screenshots.

BTW, though I have not tested, I remember someone said that
Korean people don't need groff "nippon" device.  I think
Chinese people will need it.  This is because Japanese and
Chinese language don't use whitespace between words while
Korean uses.  This causes Japanese and Chinese need different
line-folding algorithm than Korean and European languages.

---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/