On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 02:40:23PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Nicholas Marriott wrote on Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 08:10:47AM +0100:
>
> > mandoc doesn't understand Spanish, it expects NAME not NOMBRE.
>
> In the long run, we might or might not consider adding proper support
> for section names in national languages. For some sections, it makes
> a difference because some macros behave differently in some sections.
>
> For now, just treating section names in national languages as custom
> sections is probably the way to go (see the patch it sent out).
I would tend to disagree. Please consider adding section names in national
languages. makewhatis already does so, it's completely harmless.
Formated.pm: if
(m/^(?:NAME|NAMES|NAMN|NOMBRE|NOME|Name|\xbe|\xcc\xbe\xbe\xce|\xcc\xbe\xc1\xb0)\s*$/)
{
(the too last weird sequences correspond to namae in japanese common codings,
SJIS and EUC if memory serves).
