Re: arabic man pages ,is it possible?

[khaled ghetas <dr dot khaled dot hosny at gmail dot com>]

On 6/3/05, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle at freenet dot de> wrote:
> Salam Khaled,
> 
> Am 2005-06-03 03:40:01, schrieb khaled ghetas:
> >    This my first message to the doc mailing list
> 
> Welcome.
> 
> >    I'm a new member and want to participate in localizing GNU/Linux and
> >    helping it's spread among Arabs
> 
> :-)
> 
> >    I think translating man pages is a good thing and it will provide good
> >    help fore Arabic users
> >    But , is it possible
> >    If possible how can we use it?I mean we use the command=20
> >    man lilo (for example)
> >    ,in case of Arabic ,my be=20
> >    man lilo.ar (or ar.lilo)?
> 
> No, the manpage System does not work like this.
> Manpages are in
> 
>     /usr/share/man/man1
>                    man2
>                    ...
>                    man8
> 
> and the localized in
> 
>     /usr/share/man/ar/man1
>                       man2
>                       ...
>                       man8
> 
> If you have setup for example your "export LANGUAGE=ar_MA.UTF-8"
> correctly, you will get automaticly arabized manpages and if they
> are not disponible, you will get the default english.
> 
> IF your locale is another then "ar_??" then you can run man with
> 
>     LC_LANGUAGE=ar_MA.UTF-8 man <manpage>
> 
> but you can make a little wraper script like
> 
>   __( '/home/michelle.konzack/bin/arman' )________
>  /
> | #!/bin/bash
> |
> | LC_LANGUAGE=ar_MA.UTF-8 man $@
>  \________________________________________________
> 
Thanks for explanation
What about starting a new project for translating man pages of basic
Linux commands , file systems ,etc.

Khaled Hosny