> It may be related to the value of you LANG and LC_CTYPE environment > variables. The koi8-r characters may not be visible in you current > locale.
I wasn't able to set up kdict for correct work with cyrillic. Ans as you [all] probably know I'm the man who has locale setted up in the right way :) > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:20:22PM +0100, Berteun Damman wrote: > > Excuse me for not writing Russian, but my Russian is as yet not good > > enough to describe my problem, but I think this is the best list to get > > an answer though. > > > > I'm learning Russian and I've installed the Mueller dictionary in dict > > format. This file is koi8-r encoded so I made xfstt generate koi8-r > > fontmappings for my true type fonts. > > > > Still, if I select a font and set the character to koi8-r, kdict won't > > display the russian characters. It even seems dat Kdict converts them > > to NULL-characters. > > > > In general KDE application do not seem to understand koi8-r with the > > exception of Konqueror. Other applications do seem to work, I can start > > a xterm with: > > xterm -fn '-ttf-courier new-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r' > > and the koi8-r encoded text appears as Russian; for example the output > > generated by dict. > > > > So I suspect this is some KDE related problem, but I can't find the > > cause. Any help would be appreciated, but I am unable to read Russian > > good enough to make sense of Russian HOWTO's, so could answers be in > > English? > > > > Berteun > > -- > > Gpg Key: Id=0x8789AC3E / http://www.berteun.dds.nl/pubkey.txt > > Key fingerprint = FAD2 4B03 55E4 41C3 DB6F 7D0F E4D2 CC59 8789 AC3E > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Alexey "Python is executable pseudocode, Perl is executable line-noise."