Hello, On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:44:33AM +0200, Michal ??iha?? wrote: > Dne Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:31:09 +0800 > Paul Wise <[email protected]> napsal(a): > > > Could the i18n team write something about the technical details of > > doing translated manual pages the "right way" that could be shown to > > upstreams and promoted via lwn.net, blogs and similar? I wanted to do > > translated manual pages for chromium-bsu upstream but not knowing how > > to do it properly prevented me from doing it at all. > > Probably using po4a is the easiest way to handle man pages.
You might refer upstream to working examples like dpkg which have
quite a substantive use of i18n, including po4a for man pages. And of
course po4a is well documented in - you guessed it - its man pages,
which are even translated in some languages.
Greetings
Helge
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