Subject: Re: Translated manual pages
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/28/2002 14:39:22
[ On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 01:49:48 (+0900), itojun@iijlab.net wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Translated manual pages 
>
> 	i agree this is a good thing to do, but i'm wondering how to start -
> 	are there internationalized (*not* localized) groff out there?

There is an internationalized version of troff in Plan-9, as described
here (this paper was typeset by that verison of troff too):

	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.ps
	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.pdf
	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html

Plan-9 source code is supposedly now somewhat freely redistributable.

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