[XFree86] XFree86 and codepage 866

[Andrew Zabolotny]

Hello!

I need to have a separate rxvt session with codepage IBM-866 (DOS
cyrillic) inside. Unfortunately, XFree86 does not support it natively. I
tried to add some files to the lib/X11/locale/ directory which describes
the codepage, but when LANG=ru_RU.CP866 XSupportsLocale() anyways
returns that current locale is not supported.

Is there a way to add codepage 866 support without having to hack Xlib
source code? I was told that Xlib have these code pages built-in, thus
there is no way to add a new translation table without recompiling Xlib.
This is very sad as I always thought Unix is a flexible operating system
:-(

-- 
Greetings,
   Andrew

P.S. If developers don't want to make code page translation tables
external to Xlib, maybe they can add at least the possibility to
look for such files in the case Xlib *doesnt know* the requested
translation table? Otherwise poor people like me will always have to do
dirty tricks in order to handle data exchange with legacy operating
systems (in my case I need the 866 codepage because it is used in
russian Windows consoles and this cannot be changed).
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