Hi all,

I'm working on localizing a product for the japanese market and have
run into a hiccup with the manual pages. On linux or hpux, %L or %l in
MANPATH will be expanded to the current locale name, so I can provide
man pages in multiple languages under eg. /usr/local/man/ja,
/usr/local/man/en, and man <command> will display the version
appropriate for the current locale setting.

As far as I can tell from "man man" and experiments on various AIX 5L
systems, %L construct in MANPATH is only supported on AIX 5.3, but does
not work on either 5.1 or 5.2. Is this correct, or have I missed
something?

If the above is correct, do you know of a trick around this problem?
Or is my only option to tell the customer to explicitly specify the -M
or MANPATH to the man pages set of interest, which will not dynamically
update as the locale is reset.

Thanks,
Jozek