On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:35:37AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 03.VI.2001 at 02:14 Drew Parsons wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:48:16PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > On 27.V.2001 at 04:00 Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > > > > > [...] and setting LC-CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R. > > > > > > Set it to ru_RU.UTF-8 or else the keyboard will continue to generate > > > KOI8-R encoded Cyrillic. Or better just unset it. Your en_AU.UTF-8 > > > locale should be able to handle Cyrillic. > > > > > > > No, I tried that. I set LC_CTYPE to UTF-8 inside the xterm, but that's > > where I got the problem. > > > > Do you mean I should set the locale somewhere else? Say, in the console > > where I run startx from, before X even starts? > > Set it to UTF-8 outside xterm. For example set it in some xterm, then > start in this xterm another xterm. The new xterm should be able to > accept Cyrillic. > > If you set LC_CTYPE in a xterm this affects only programs started in it, > but not the xterm itself. >
Oh yeah, that makes sense. For simplicity I've put the settings into /etc/environment, so that's going to affect *everything* now ;) Thanks for the tip, I can get the cyrillic letters now in UTF-8. Next step is to get the editors cooperating... > > P.S. I apologize to Drew for a copy of this mail I send to him. heh ;) Thanks, Anton, Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
