Traditionaly, *the standard* locale for UNIX in Russia was KOI8-R. This is broken in RedHat - ISO is set by default. To fix: 1. ru_RU must select KOI8-R (same in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias) 2. ru_RU.<charset> must reference respective charsets 3. ru_SU must be an alias for ru_RU
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 641 ***