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Re: arabic man pages, is it possible?
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: arabic man pages, is it possible?
- From: Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:17:28 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
[...]
> > Why don't translate them directly?
> > Man pages are simple text files and all what we need is translating
> > all words that don't start with "dot" and of course the command
> > itself and it's options.
One very good reason why to have .po files is when updates happen. All you have
to do then is to merge the .po files. That's it! You don't have to 'diff' or
look for the differences manually.
My 2c.
- Ossama
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