[mplayer-dev-eng] fixing installation of localized manpages

[Andreas Hess]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:37:46AM +0100, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 February 2003, Andreas Hess wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:02:24AM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > We'll see about that. Also, it doesn't allow to select the GUI language if
> > > you want all man pages.
> > 
> > Blah!  If your system has a lot of international users, who need the
> > manpage in their own language, the GUI should have the one language,
> > that's most likely to be understood by all of those users.  And this
> > is english.
> 
> No. If there are translations available, users should be able to select
> whatever translation they wish using standard locale(1) settings.

Maybe, then you should try the experimental gettext support via --enable-i18n,
but when you statically compile in one language, there's no possibility for
honoring locale.