Subject: Re: Translated manual pages
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20021029T062633@wsrcc.com>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 10/29/2002 23:49:08
>>>>> On 29 Oct 2002 06:32:38 -0800,
Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20021029T062633@wsrcc.com> said:
> My question is, how are translated man pages selected? Does man(1)
> look at the localization env variables and then magically grab the
> localized pages?
Yes. man(1) should do that.
On almost all UNIX variants, man(1) uses environment variable
$LC_ALL, $LC_MESSAGES and $LANG in this order of precedence.
NetBSD should follow this standard practice.
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soda