Re: translations of GNU manuals

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:32:17PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     gcal comes with a translated manual, too.  
> 
> Ah.  It looks to me like gcal attempts to install only the language for
> current system.  It seems better to install everything.

If LINGUAS is set, then only those should be installed...?
> 
> The only reasonable approach I can think of is
> $(infodir)/$(LANG)/*.info
> 
> And since the overwhelming majority of distributions don't have any
> translated manuals, I think putting English manuals directly in
> $(infodir) is still reasonable, for now.  $(infodir)/en could be a
> symlink to `.' ...

Sounds reasonable.

Anyway, it really make little difference where you
store it...users don't invoke the full path.

> The dir file can be hand-edited to include whichever manuals in
> whichever order is desirable at the local site.  In practice, the dir
> file pretty much has to be hand-edited anyway.

Should be changed to allow for some i18n via LC_*?

Andrew