Bug 513

Summary:	XFree86-libs-3.3.3-1: problems with ru_RU.KOI8-R locale
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Version:	5.1	CC:	gafton
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Description Aleksey Nogin 1998-12-18 01:10:44 UTC

I've just installed the latest XFree86 updates from the
updates.redhat.com. After the upgrade it turned out that
when I type Cyrillic letters (my keymap uses Cyrillic_*
keysyms) in Xterm or in Licq, I get Cyrillic letters, but
the wrong ones!

When I had downgraded to XFree86-libs-3.3.2.3-18 (keeping
other XFree-*-3.3.3-1 packages) and started a new xterm,
that xterm was working fine. I restarted my X server and now
everything works fine (with the old libs).

My configuration: RH 5.1 + updates, glibc-2.0.7-19, kernel
2.0.35

Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-01-11 19:16:59 UTC

Cristian, you said you knew something about this one; can you
elaborate for us?

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 1999-01-13 00:22:59 UTC

"Cyrillic letters, but the wrong ones" turned out to be the ISO-5559-5
encoding of Cyrillics. It would seem that something is wrong with the
way new X libs are handling locales, since the locale files are not in
the XFree86-libs RPM, and should not be affected by the XFree86-libs
upgrade.

If you need more information on my locale setup, take a look at bug
report #641, where I describe several methods of enabling ru_RU.KOI8-R
locale. Currently, I am using

cd /usr/share/locale
localedef -ci ru_RU -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
mv ru_RU.koi8r ru_RU.KOI8-R

setup

Comment 3 Preston Brown 1999-01-18 22:19:59 UTC

This is fixed in a forthcoming errata release of XFree86 3.3.3.1.