Re: I18n for man pages in GNOME

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Hi Claude, Helge,

On Monday at 22:29, Claude Paroz wrote:

> Thanks, now it's clearer for me.
>
> AFAIK, there is no translation toolchain for man pages in the GNOME
> translation project, and I didn't find any translated man pages in GNOME
> SVN.

It should be simple for someone with autofoo to provide build system
based on gnome-doc-utils to allow translating Docbook-based manpages
as well (and one such manpage is present in gnome-doc-utils/xml2po as
well).

> Maybe someone with more experience in GNOME i18n could tell us if this
> has already been discussed here.
>
> Basically, I think this could be done on the same model that is
> currently used for Docbook help, except adding the extra step of
> generating man page with the appropriate tool.

Exactly :)

Cheers,
Danilo