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diff --git a/msgs/README b/msgs/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1422044 --- /dev/null +++ b/msgs/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +The English messages are compiled into man, and are used +when it cannot find a message catalog. + +Before printing a message, man does a catopen("man_messages", 0); +which means that it tries to open the file obtained from the environment +variable NLSPATH by substituting "man_messages" for %N, and $LC_MESSAGES +for %L (older implementations use $LANG instead) +When NLSPATH is not set, the value + "/usr/lib/locale/%L/%N.cat:/usr/lib/locale/%N/%L" +is used. If no information about the language is available, "C" is used. + +Because the catalog routines are not generally available, I have enclosed +a copy of the gencat source. + +If you add a new message catalog, say for language da, then verify that +the labels are used correctly by doing + ../src/makemsg mess.en x.en.h x.en.c + ../src/makemsg mess.da x.da.h x.da.c + diff x.en.h x.da.h + rm x* +The files x.en.h and x.da.h should be identical. + + +Recent gencat wants to know what codeset the messages are in. +Please report incorrect codesets to flucifredi@acm.org. |