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6.68.2. Non-English Manual Pages in LFS
The following table shows the character set that Man-DB assumes manual pages installed under /usr/share/man/
<ll> will be encoded with. In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual pages installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded.
Table 6.1. Expected character encoding of legacy 8-bit manual pages
Language (code) | Encoding | Language (code) | Encoding |
Danish (da) | ISO-8859-1 | Croatian (hr) | ISO-8859-2 |
German (de) | ISO-8859-1 | Hungarian (hu) | ISO-8859-2 |
English (en) | ISO-8859-1 | Japanese (ja) | EUC-JP |
Spanish (es) | ISO-8859-1 | Korean (ko) | EUC-KR |
Estonian (et) | ISO-8859-1 | Lithuanian (lt) | ISO-8859-13 |
Finnish (fi) | ISO-8859-1 | Latvian (lv) | ISO-8859-13 |
French (fr) | ISO-8859-1 | Macedonian (mk) | ISO-8859-5 |
Irish (ga) | ISO-8859-1 | Polish (pl) | ISO-8859-2 |
Galician (gl) | ISO-8859-1 | Romanian (ro) | ISO-8859-2 |
Indonesian (id) | ISO-8859-1 | Russian (ru) | KOI8-R |
Icelandic (is) | ISO-8859-1 | Slovak (sk) | ISO-8859-2 |
Italian (it) | ISO-8859-1 | Slovenian (sl) | ISO-8859-2 |
Norwegian Bokmal (nb) | ISO-8859-1 | Serbian Latin (sr@latin) | ISO-8859-2 |
Dutch (nl) | ISO-8859-1 | Serbian (sr) | ISO-8859-5 |
Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) | ISO-8859-1 | Turkish (tr) | ISO-8859-9 |
Norwegian (no) | ISO-8859-1 | Ukrainian (uk) | KOI8-U |
Portuguese (pt) | ISO-8859-1 | Vietnamese (vi) | TCVN5712-1 |
Swedish (sv) | ISO-8859-1 | Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) | GBK |
Belarusian (be) | CP1251 | Simplified Chinese, Singapore (zh_SG) | GBK |
Bulgarian (bg) | CP1251 | Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong (zh_HK) | BIG5HKSCS |
Czech (cs) | ISO-8859-2 | Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) | BIG5 |
Greek (el) | ISO-8859-7 |
Note
Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported.
Note
Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported.
