On 2/7/07, Sergej Pupykin <ps@lx-ltd.ru> wrote:
RK> UTF-8 is OK. I only asked if there is a possibility to have two man RK> and po versions for some languages - UTF-8 and non-UTF-8. I think for RK> man pages it is possible by putting them in corresponding /usr/man RK> dirs (for example there are ru, ru.KOI8-R and ru.UTF-8 in /usr/man), RK> the same can be done for .mo files, I think. RK> Of course all this is quite odd. I would like all other encodings to RK> disappear ASAP.
For man it is simplier to edit man.conf and put "iconv -f utf8 -t <locale-cp>" call into it. So I think man in utf8 is enough. Don't know about po...
I believe the .po files are pretty good at working with different character sets, as long as you do 2 things: save the file in the correct character set, and correctly fill out the PO header where it asks for the charset used. After that, gettext does the hard work of converting between locales and charsets. -Dan