Full Text Search, Language Support for the Ubuntu Manpage Repo

A new release of the Ubuntu Manpage Repository rolled out this week to http://manpages.ubuntu.com.  This is by far the most complete interface yet!

Notable new features include:

• Full text search using a Google Custom Search Engine
  • Example: search for manpages written by authors with ‘@canonical.com’ addresses
• Better support for non-English languages.  There is now a select box in the search form, supporting the 17 languages that have 100 or manpages.  This can be used to narrow either the title search, or the text search.
  • Example: search for the ‘chown’ manpage in Russian
  • Example: search for any pages regarding ’ssh’ in Japanese
• Instead of ‘404 Not Found’ pages, invalid URLs offer search results.
  • Example: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/scooby

If you would be willing and interested to translate the main page into another language, please email me.

ustin