Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77263
Cyrillic font/Russian Language support
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:01:29 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Description of problem: Problems with Russiam language/font/encoding. UTF8 - is bad. Problem with mc - impossible to work. Also problem with "make menuconfig" impossible to compile a kernel because the text is unreadable. changing i18n to LANG="en_US.iso885915" works, but how to make back koi8-r support? copying file i18n doesn't helped :((( The situation became badder. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install with Russian language support. 2. Use mc(midnight commander) of make menuconfig Actual Results: No proper support for Russian Language, I use do downgrade back to RH7.3. Also I am not support you decision about xmms mp3 support I have to install RH7.3 again. Expected Results: To see normal Russian letters support and to see the Linux I haven't seem before. Yeah, you ad was at time I haven't seen so many problems since RedHat 5.1. Additional info: no additional information me only an advice to make choose during installation of RH8.1 if it follows what charset to use koi8-r or UTF8.
While I have to agree about bad support of Russian in both console and X, it is still possible to configure. This is what I do have in my /etc/sysconfig/i18n: LANGUAGE="en_US.utf8" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_LOCALE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" And here is the content of my /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: KEYTABLE="ru1" I am still fighting with several problems in console, but in X everything works fine. I had to move away from gnome-terminal and konsole, though to the plain-old-bug-free (grin) xterm. This is how I start xterm: LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 xterm -fn '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO10646-1' -bg black -fg green Midnight Commander does not understand utf-8, but at least it uses pseudo-graphics properly. There are also few other problems with unicode, specifically for me - icq and irc. As to the question of mp3 support, I support Redhat. Those, who miss the functionality, can get it back easily by installing xmms/mpg123 from http://freshrpms.net . Those RPMs are specifically built for latest versions of RedHat and DO work. Try them.
There have been a lot of UTF-8 improvements. Not sure if the original report actually is a bug or bad configuration, but closing RAWHIDE.