On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 05:05:40PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > > > I would tend to disagree. Please consider adding section names in national > > languages. makewhatis already does so, it's completely harmless. > > > > Formated.pm: if > > (m/^(?:NAME|NAMES|NAMN|NOMBRE|NOME|Name|\xbe|\xcc\xbe\xbe\xce|\xcc\xbe\xc1\xb0)\s*$/) > > { > > I intensely dislike this since it simply doesn't scale. Luckily > we only have a few non-English man pages in the tree and these are > handled very haphazardly. But for perspective: LC_MESSAGES come > in, what, fifty languages? A hundred?
It's practical. I want it to work on every manpage in the ports tree, not every possible thing we would have to worry about 20 years in the future.