Mark Goldstein
I tried to setup KOI8-R locale using YaST2 sysconfig module (system->environment->language).
It turned out, that this module uses the line: ## Type: string(POSIX,ca_ES.ISO-8859-1,ca_ES.UTF-8,cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2,cs_CZ.UTF-8,da_DE@euro,da_DK.ISO-8859-1,da_DK.UTF-8,de_DE@euro,de_DE.ISO-8859-1,de_DE.UTF-8,el_GR.ISO-8859-7,el_GR.UTF-8,en_GB.ISO-8859-1,en_GB.UTF-8,en_IE@euro,en_IE.ISO-8859-1,en_US.ISO-8859-1,es_ES@euro,es_ES.ISO-8859-1,es_ES.UTF-8,fr_FR@euro,fr_FR.ISO-8859-1,fr_FR.UTF-8,gl_ES@euro,gl_ES.ISO-8859-1,gl_ES.utf-8,hr_HR.ISO-8859-2,hu_HU.ISO-8859-2,hu_HU.UTF-8,it_IT@euro,it_IT.ISO-8859-1,it_IT.UTF-8,ja_JP.eucJP,ja_JP.UTF-8,lt_LT.ISO-8859-13,lt_LT.UTF-8,nl_NL@euro,nl_NL.ISO-8859-1,nl_NL.UTF-8,ru_RU.ISO-8859-5,ru_RU.KOI8R,ru_RU.UTF-8,sk_SK.ISO-8859-2,sk_SK.UTF-8,tr_TR.ISO-8859-9,tr_TR.UTF-8,ko_KR.eucKR,ko_KR.UTF-8,zh_TW.Big5,zh_TW.UTF-8,zh_CN.GB2312,zh_CN.UTF-8)
from /etc/sysconfig/language to build its "drop-down" list of possible locales. So the locale I wanted looked like ru_RU.KOI8R
This is incompatible with X applications.
Only after I changed the above line to ... ru_RU.KOI8-R the locale was setup correctly and X could work with it.
Well, probably everybody else just edit the proper files manualy?
You don't need to edit the files with a text editor, you don't have to use the values suggested from the drop down list, you can type any value you like into the respective input field in YaST2.
Am I missing something? Should it be KOI8-R or KOI8R? Or both should work?
Your are right that only ru_RU.KOI8-R works with X applications.
I.e. this is a mistake in the drop-down list of the possible locales.
There is another mistake, "gl_ES.utf-8" doesn't work either,
it should be "gl_ES.UTF-8".
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Mike FABIAN