Re: man-db Japanese support quick hack
I wish to know the ukai's patch can be adopted.
Japanese support of man-db is quite important for Japanese users.
So if man-db continues to reject the Japanese support, the separate
package man-db-ja must be provided for potato.
In article <14149.47364.465194.43696Y@lavender.debian.gr.jp>
Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp> writes:
> Package: man-db
> Version: 2.3.10-69g
> Severity: important (for Japanese user)
>
> The current verison of man-db could not handle Japanese pages because
> it always uses latin1 as nroff device. I think man-db would not works
> for other languages which is not using latin1 character sets, such
> as Korean/Chinese...
>
> However, there are already jgroff/jless packages in debian. jgroff
> is the package replacing groff package and it provides `nippon' device to
> handle Japanese roff pages correctly.
>
> So, if we apply the following patch to man-db-2.3.10-69g and
> install jgorff instead of groff
> install jless instead of less
> (and set JLESSCHARSET environment variable as `japanese')
> install manpages-ja
> then we can see Japanese manual pages!
> I think it's better that manpages-ja depends on (or recommends?)
> jgroff and jless.
>
> Note that the point of this patches are
> - detect manpages is Japanese or not by manpath of the man pages
> - if Japanese pages, add -Tnippon to nroff options
>
> Of course, this is *very* quick hack, but it does not harm any users
> and it works very well for Japanese users. I don't know whether it
> works for Korean/Chinese and so on.
>
> BTW, we should think how to internationalize man-db.
>
> diff -Nru man-db-2.3.10/include/manconfig.h.in man-db-2.3.10.ja/include/manconfig.h.in
> --- man-db-2.3.10/include/manconfig.h.in Sat May 22 04:21:17 1999
> +++ man-db-2.3.10.ja/include/manconfig.h.in Sat May 22 04:02:56 1999
> @@ -127,6 +127,8 @@
> #ifndef NROFF_MISSING
> # ifndef NROFF
> # define NROFF "@nroff@"
> +/* Japanese hack: 1999/05/22: ukai@debian.or.jp */
> +# define NROFF_JA "@nroff@ -Tnippon "
> # endif
> #endif
>
> diff -Nru man-db-2.3.10/src/man.c man-db-2.3.10.ja/src/man.c
> --- man-db-2.3.10/src/man.c Sat May 22 04:21:18 1999
> +++ man-db-2.3.10.ja/src/man.c Sat May 22 04:20:24 1999
> @@ -376,6 +376,9 @@
> static int ascii; /* insert tr in the output pipe */
> static int save_cat; /* security breach? Can we save the cat? */
>
> +/* Japanese hack: 1999/05/22 ukai@debian.or.jp */
> +static int japanese; /* japanese page? */
> +
> static int found_a_stray; /* found a straycat */
>
> #ifdef MAN_CATS
> @@ -1352,7 +1355,12 @@
> #ifdef NROFF_MISSING
> assert (0);
> #else
> +/* Japanese hack: 1999/05/22: ukai@debian.or.jp */
> + if (japanese) {
> + filter = NROFF_JA;
> + } else
> filter = NROFF;
> +
> #endif
> }
>
> @@ -2240,8 +2248,10 @@
> free(catpath);
> } else
> database = mkdbname(manpath);
> -
> +/* Japanese hack: 1999/05/22: ukai@debian.or.jp */
> + japanese = (strstr(manpath, "/ja") != NULL);
> in_cache = lookup(manpath); /* have we looked here already? */
> +
>
> if ( !in_cache ) {
> if ( (dbf = MYDBM_RDOPEN(database)) && !dbver_rd(dbf)) {
>
> Regards,
> Fumitoshi UKAI
--
Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
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