Better language support needed

[Lars Ljung]

This is a great idea but it needs to be extended to include man pages in other languages. Preferably by honouring the Accept-Language HTTP header.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

All manpages are already available (including the translated one); see http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/, but I agree that the translations should be made more visible, perhaps by providing links to translated versions at the top (but personally I don't the link the idea to redirect automatically to them, if that's what you meant, but using the Accept-Language header to know what translations the user might want would indeed be interesting).

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hi guys-

Thanks for the bug report!

You're absolutely right... I definitely need to strengthen the language support.

I was thinking of using Accept-Language in conjunction with a dropbox/form that would allow you to switch between languages, setting a cookie in the browser for the locale, and essentially hiding other locales until you change.

What do you think?

:-Dustin

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I've committed some basic support for non-english languages to the development server.

I'm going to mark Fix Committed for now. Basically, there's a drop-down select box to choose the language of the results you want to search for.

Ping me on IRC if you're willing/able to test this for me if I give you the development URL.

:-Dustin

[Lars Ljung (larslj)]

A drop-down box sounds like a good idea. What happens if the man page is not available in that language, will it fall back to the English version just as at the command line?