Subject: Re: Russian locale and Russian messages
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/27/2003 18:27:39
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Hi Victor,

Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> wrote:

> What am I doing wrong, why am I seeing "\353\317\315\301\316" instead
> of 8-bit Cyrillic characters? 
> [sudakov@Sun2 ~] printenv LANG; printenv SHELL
> ru_RU.KOI8-R
> /bin/tcsh

LANG is the wrong variable for this. You can set it to ru or ru_RU but
this variable only used by Perl IIRC. You should set LC_CTYPE to
ru_RU.KOI8-R. See setlocale(3) for more details.

> man tcsh advises to set the tty in 8 bit mode, how do I do that?  I am
> connected via ssh.

stty pass8 should do that.

Christian

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