It may be related to the value of you LANG and LC_CTYPE environment variables. The koi8-r characters may not be visible in you current locale.
-- Misha On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:20:22PM +0100, Berteun Damman wrote: > Excuse me for not writing Russian, but my Russian is as yet not good > enough to describe my problem, but I think this is the best list to get > an answer though. > > I'm learning Russian and I've installed the Mueller dictionary in dict > format. This file is koi8-r encoded so I made xfstt generate koi8-r > fontmappings for my true type fonts. > > Still, if I select a font and set the character to koi8-r, kdict won't > display the russian characters. It even seems dat Kdict converts them > to NULL-characters. > > In general KDE application do not seem to understand koi8-r with the > exception of Konqueror. Other applications do seem to work, I can start > a xterm with: > xterm -fn '-ttf-courier new-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r' > and the koi8-r encoded text appears as Russian; for example the output > generated by dict. > > So I suspect this is some KDE related problem, but I can't find the > cause. Any help would be appreciated, but I am unable to read Russian > good enough to make sense of Russian HOWTO's, so could answers be in > English? > > Berteun > -- > Gpg Key: Id=0x8789AC3E / http://www.berteun.dds.nl/pubkey.txt > Key fingerprint = FAD2 4B03 55E4 41C3 DB6F 7D0F E4D2 CC59 8789 AC3E
