Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:17:42PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Armin K. wrote: >>> On 12/31/2013 06:58 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Looking at the BLFS Shadow package instructions, there is a command >>>> and descriptive text for disabling the Korean and Chinese man pages. >>>> However, this is not done in LFS. Seems the two books would be >>>> consistent as far as which man pages are installed. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>> >>> I believe that LFS had some note for man-db that it couldn't properly >>> display man pages in some languages, but that was fixed some time ago. >> >> I'm not sure how to check. I tried: >> >> $ LANG=ko man chfn >> man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct >> >> but it did display the English page. We do have the ko, zh_CN, and >> zh_TW pages installed. I also see that nmap installs a zh page. >> >> -- Bruce >> > > From some quick tests (in urxvt on a 'buntu "desktop" on my > netbook, using ssh to get to my 7.4 server) I can display the shadow > pages I tried for the ja_JP, ko_KR, zh_CN, zh_TW locales : but only > if I specify LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 : omitting the .UTF-8 gave me > gibberish. > > This also requires the locales, of course, and suitable fonts. > > Arguably, LFS is out of date - but very few LFS users seem to care > about CJK text. > > There is, of course, no way to display CJK in a regular tty (far > too many potential glyphs). But from any desktop term which is > correctly set up and has a suitable font you can display them using > the form 'man /usr/share/man/ja/man1/su.1' and the same if you > replace 'ja' by 'ko', 'zh_CN' or 'zh_TW'. Unfortunately, many of > the other pages are not present in all four of these CJK locales.
In any case, Randy's observation that LFS and BLFS install shadow differently is still accurate. Should we change LFS to omit the ko/zn man pages or remove the sed from BLFS that does that. I lean towards removing the sed from BLFS, but will defer to those who do more with non-US fonts. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
